On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:23:54 -0000, Jerry Peters wrote:
Heinz Schmitz wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
Incidentally, nobody does backups until AFTER they've lost a massive
amount of data and correspondly massive amount of time and money.
Not I. I back up my hard drive periodically. When W2K "collapsed" several
years, I had full backup and lost nothing.
... only the time to reinstall every single program. Does your backup
care for the bookmarks of your browser, the mails of your emailer and
so forth, which all happily sit somewhere else than in the "My Data"
directory?
All of the programs and data are on the backup, that's why it's called
a backup.
Yes.
What's the "My Data" directory and why would I only backup 1
directory?
The only real thing is a disk imager, working and tested - for your
OS, the hard disk size you use, and the file system you have :-).
To have an incremental backup, too, would be fine.
Depends, what you're using. I do a full backup every few months, then
a weekly differential. Current work in progress gets copied to a USB
memory stick as appropriate.
And, yes, I periodically test my backups by doing restores.
I'm lazy, I get another computer to backup the main one every night.
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