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Does anyone here bother to back up all their data on their PCs? If so, what program do you use to do it and how frequently do you back up?

Ive been using Acronis True Image myself, what it does is it backs up on a set schedule every week all of my needed data, things like music, pictures and programs. I also have it set so that it backs up Windows completely so if ever Windows 7 wont load, I pop in the Acronis disc and in about an hour everything is restored and working as normal.

I also use a program called SyncBackPro which allows myself and Kerry to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of our sites that runs in the background. You can use it for PC data too though but Acronis I find is best for that.

So, do you back anything up yourself at all?

I was going to ask if you had anything to backup the forum on a regular basis. Whenever I back up my phpbb forum I always use the feature in the ACP, but I can imagine there's lots of better ways to do it than that.

As for actually backing up my computer...I'd like to, but I have nothing to store the backup. I'm hopefully getting an external hard drive soon.

How do you select what stuff to backup and what not to? I'd only like to backup my images, musics, documents, downloads etc, as some games can be installed again easily.

well, i back mostly games, movies and tv shows which i out on a dvd. pictures and documents i just put them on a extern drive.

Of course we do We have remote automatic backups on another server and the backups using SyncBackPro on my other partition which is almost devoted to backing up lol, it is always best to backup and be safe rather than sorry. If you want any help with that let me know

With Acronis True Image you can configure it to either take a whole windows backup or you can configure say to backup your My Documents folder or your Personal folder on Win7, once you have chosen what folders to grab you set its schedule so say weekly for a full windows backup and daily for the folder backup, you can have more than one backup profile allowing you to backup over a network and with SyncBack over FTP, I am not 100% sure if FTP works with Acronis. You choose a source and destination basically.

It is checkbox selection of folders, once its set up you dont need to touch it ever again unless anything goes wrong.

If Windows fails you put in a boot disc the Acronis program allows you to burn and then you choose a backup from the list and it begins to restore the whole system.

Pfft, I've never bothered with partitions and stuff. Never really understood them. The method I used to back-up my forums (I've had 3) was to transfer a copy of the "forum" folder in the FTP and put it in My Documents somewhere.

Can it be used for bog-standard back-ups as well? Without networks, FTP's I mean. Like if I just want to back-up My Docs, Pictures, Musics and my Steam folder? I'm pretty sure you can from what you've said but I just want clarification.

I don't even have a boot-disc. :( Vista was pre-installed on this PC. If the HDD fails, I'm buggered.

The way you are doing it does work but theres no guarantee that you will remember to do it This way it is automated really. Another benefit is that you can also backup any databases automatically too rather than having to login to a control panel and then manually generate a backup of one to download via FTP. Also this way is good because it checks file dates, looks for whats missing and transfers it, so it is pretty much incremental in stages. So its not a whole redownload for you

Yes, its best to have it stored somewhere safe though really like another drive. It defeats the point of it having it on the same drive pretty much, but you could burn them all to disc instead.


No no, Acronis's boot disc is what I mean, when you install the program and use it, it will ask for you to make an Acronis boot disc, this allows you to quick boot menu > CD drive > Acronis DOS Program starts > Choose backup you want > Wait > Done

Gotcha. Could you give me a link to these programs? It looks as if they'll help me a lot.

I usually just back up Music, and College work, anything is easy enough to re-install. I either back up onto 5gb Memory sticks, my 500GB external Hardrive or my 1 Terrabyte beast of an external Hardrive

I think I need one of those myself and possibly one of them network stations