Do you have a backup?

[NannerBeans]

My important files are pretty much only my school stuff and they're small files so it's all on my dropbox. I do have another drive where I store all of my anime and stuff that is basically a copy of my mass storage drive but that's really all it is used for. My important music is ripped from CDs that I bought so I can just rip them again if I lose the files.

[Sousuke]

I have a 2TB Hitachi Drive in my Mac Pro to backup all the data on it as the PC has no key data on it however I am planning on getting a server to start backing up onto it (Having a 2TB Raid 1 Array for Media and a 6TB Raid 5 Array for Backups).

[W-Junk]

I don't do backups of my pc or files that can easily be reacquired. But all of my family photos and important documents is on a external drive at my parents and a copy in the cloud 

[KemoKa]

Technically I do, and I'm using it right now to clean my laptops SSD (something went wrong on Windows 10) but all it is is a 250GB laptop hard drive over a USB-SATA interface. It took an hour just to move my desktop

[Speedbird]

Ever since I phased out the last pre-8 OS on my systems, I have been creating File History backups of my stuff. It's nothing special really, most of it is just all of my downloads. I also have a crapton (about 300GB) of torrents on a separate partition, sometimes even on a separate disk, which won't be touched during Windows reinstallations.

[LarsReviews]

No, all my files are on a Cloud Storage. If the SSD fails I RMA it and reinstall windows of my USB stick. Nothing to worry about. 

[ttam]

I don't keep anything on my computer worth backing up. I keep copies of normal digital files on my Google drive (resume, word docs, etc)

[Jumper118]

no backup no antivirus no malware sweepers no windows updates. my pc runs the lightest version of windows 7 in existence    

[TomvanWijnen]

I've just put my school stuff, my music, copy's of games, and a Windows iso on both my computers, so if one fails, it'll still be on the other. The other things are easily redownloaded like chrome, ccleaner, minecraft etc.

Btw, thanks for remembering me to clean up my school folder, and back it up to my other computer again, and thanks for remembering me to reformat my whole old os drive with Vista lol.

[braceyourself07]

I have a 256GB SSD and 3x500GB SATA hard drives in RAID 0 for 1.5TB for game storage on my desktop.  All of my documents are on Google Drive.  All my music is on Google Play.  So the only thing left for me to back up is photo and video multimedia.  Everything else is cloud based or something I can easily reinstall.  The photos and videos I store on a NAS and have an automated backup.  I have a set of home security IP cameras that record directly to the NAS as well.  

 

I'm in the process of putting together an older Supermicro ATX server motherboard and 8x2TB seagate barracudas as a fileserver that I am going to throw in the server room at my office for off site duplication of the NAS.

 

I do agree that backups are many times overlooked... but for the casual user, cloud storage tends to be sufficient.

[Maslofski]

battery to correctly shut off? yes. anything else? nope³

[Clyne]

My steam games/game progress won't be lost and for Word documents and other things like that, i have one drive.

[Daegun]

I used to not back up anything at all, and when I finally filled up my computer with enough to need to be backed up in case something happened, I just took it all off my computer and put it on a hard drives in raid 1 on a nas. The only thing I have on my computer are steam games on an ssd.

If I have need of anything, I copy it off the nas when I need it, then delete it when I'm done.

I don't think I've ever actually done a true backup.

[GoldSrc]

I don't have the storage to do a back up, I may get another 3 or 4TB in the future.

[swifty7]

I religiously backup all of my important data.

[han_han08]

no, i don't have any to back it up to, and I don't know how to

[deVIZtation]

The only thing I have backed up are pictures and music. I could always re-install windows and stuff. Games I don't care for, those are re-downloadable as well. I do have a backup computer in 2 laptops that I rarely use though. So if something in my desktop were to crap out, I have a backup computer I could use until I diagnose the problem.

[STRMfrmXMN]

I cloned my HDD to my laptop's SSD so I guess you could say it's a backup in case of SSD failure.

I have music and anything else important for my desktop on a mass storage drive.

[othertomperson]

Not of my whole system. Most of my stuff is no great loss if it all went. Would be an opportunity to clean up, actually.

 

Sensitive stuff that actually matters, yes. The stuff I need for school, for instance, I have five backups of. Can't be too careful.

[Frankie]

I have a PC and a laptop so I have the somewhat ''important'' things on both machines. I guess that is a backup because chance that both go down is almost non-existant

[wyattzx]

I have a 2TB WD MyBook that I use to do weekly backups of my Media and OS drives. I'd do it more often, but my OS drive rarely ever changes.

[Trik'Stari]

I don't store anything I don't want lost, drive fails, buy new one, reinstall games, etc.

[jmannik]

I have a backup system that backs my important data to both disk and LTO3 Tapes.

[KingKeith55]

I never backup my crap because I can always get it back... I only backup really important stuff, and that's on a flash drive or something. Other than that all my games and stuff like that I just leave.

 

As it is I have never had a drive fail on me or anything, and the most problems I have had were windows update bullshit problems that made me have to refresh my PC. All I lost were program files and stuff, but as I said I can get all of it back. I still had my games in windows.old so I copied them over, and all the documents that I have were saved.

[Fred Castellum]

Back-ups? I most certainly have back-ups for my important files.