How do you back up stuff? (photos, videos, etc..)

[bosnian_guy]

Hey guys,

 

I recently became a brother and I am starting to pile up photos and videos of my young brother (2 K to be precise). I backed them up on two USB Flash Drives, Google Drive, Dropbox and on DVD's. How do you back up your data?

[solosdk]

Dropbox, storage HDD's

[Frosty]

An old Hitachi external HDD.

[typetheed]

I installed a separate blank hard drive inside my system and labeled it "backup".

 

About every weekend, I'll drag and drop my Pictures, Videos, and Documents folders from my C: drive to my Backup drive manually and "overwrite" the last backup I did the past week.

 

It's foolproof. I check for bad sectors constantly with a live linux distro about every month. The first bad sector I get, I swap Hard Drives. I've never lost any data since i've implemented this method about 6 years ago.

[Lays]

I don't really have it backed up, I'm not to worried about things failing, but maybe I will back some of the stuff up someday with a NAS or something :O

[Volbet]

"Real men don't do backups, they cry when they lose data" - My old PC teacher

 

I backup my PC's on a server once every month

[looney]

everything is on my server, and my server is backed up on the cloud.

[stevv]

everything is on my server, and my server is backed up on the cloud.

 

same here.  I use backblaze ($5/mo) on the "server" (using windows 7). edit: I use the encrypt with your own key option.

 

I like Google drive.  I also use Picasa desktop to manage my photos and camera (non camcorder) videos (30K and counting haha). It keeps track of photos so doesn't import already existing stuff, reads all the photo data, and tags that can be searched through even windows. Has easy Sync to online and share/no share.  Currently 16GB free (counting all stuff, email docs, etc... I think the music sync too.).

[canadianultra]

I don't back stuff up, maybe that would be a good idea 

[bosnian_guy]

I don't back stuff up, maybe that would be a good idea 

Of course it would.

[FireFox]

I back everything up on a 640GB external but will need to be getting a bigger one soon,

[fishymamba]

250GB external drive.

[SSOB]

Google drive , External HDD , Simcard etc.

[Torg73]

I have 50gb of box when I bought my tablet last year, also have a 1 tb external hhd and use Google drive and since I buy a lot of my mp3 and eBooks from Amazon I store them on their cloud too.

 

for something's its a backup of a backup ...

[Denoxx]

I've got a 3TB external harddrive where I store all my games/films/photos and other documents. (everything legally bought ofc :D ) and then I got a another 1TB external harddrive where I store monthly system-images.

[qwertywarrior]

i really really recommend dropbox for photos

i had many instances where drives die on me and everything was lost

[FireFox]

Might pick up an external HDD soon to prevent disaster.

 

saying that you might have started a chain of events that may bring on that inevitable disaster

 

Also 80GB jesus, so you have a few songs then :P

[FireFox]

Let's hope I didn't jinx that one. :D

 

Started collecting back in 2008 and it's been growing since. I refuse to use Spotify and other streaming services. There's something about buying physical copies... ;)

 

Yea you canm actually hold then which is cool, can't hold bits.

[J-man]

I have a server in my basement and one at my sister's house.