Comments on: Do you back up your most important stuff?

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:14:43 +0000

An interesting article. I have written a small blog post about backing stuff up online if you are interested.
http://www.evilmunky.com/?p=1277

By: Kip

Kip — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:14:43 +0000

An interesting article. I have written a small blog post about backing stuff up online if you are interested.
http://www.evilmunky.com/?p=1277

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By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:41:36 +0000

Yeah I basically use Flickr for that purpose, as well as sharing. It works really well.

By: martinjy

martinjy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:43:30 +0000

@snarkle. There’s a good video about online photo services on http://commoncraft.com. In short, sign up to a service and use it to back up your favourites, even if you don’t plan to share them there.

By: Tim Moreillon

Tim Moreillon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:11:05 +0000

@Ross – Yes, Jungle Disk gives me a weekly report on what was uploaded and when. Makes it quick and easy to ensure everything was backed up. The other services don’t (at least that In know of)

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:42:03 +0000

@Tim so do you ever check that your backups work? :)

@Martinjy yeah that’s a common issue I think – wifi has its limits so if you plan on doing wireless backups it is generally easier to do the first complete one by ethernet. I actually use Time Machine with an external drive so I have to plug it in by USB every time.

@snarkle yeah that’s actually what sparked this post for me. I’m about to go and buy some blank DVDs for the photo collection. The highlights are on Flickr already but I want to have better photo backups. I’m also going to print the highlights to paper with a Qoop book, because they’re awesome.

By: snarkle

snarkle — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:10:27 +0000

The only other piece of advice I would give is to not keep your portable drive NEAR your computer. If your home/office is burgled, you don’t want to lose both your laptop AND your backup.

I mention this because this is what happened to a friend of mine. All of his families digital photos; gone!

By: Martinjy

Martinjy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:29:57 +0000

“5. Push go, and wait for it to do the first backup”.

This is true, but the “wait” could be some time.

I set my Time Machine to make its first backup last night – after buying Leopard on Friday and installing it on Saturday – and it had only done 10gb in 8 hours by the time I checked it this morning. :-0

Perhaps it’s so slow because I’m doing it over wifi – my HDD is connected to my Airport Extreme.

Anyway, back up peoples!

By: Tim Moreillon

Tim Moreillon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:24:07 +0000

Good to see you’re giving people a nudge Ross! Backup is still often forgotten in this day and age!

I use Time Machine, but I also utilise a few online backup solutions. For my Macs I use BackBlaze, which constantly uploads changed files. For PCs I use Jungle Disk, but have also used Carbonite. All have been very good and give me an extra sense of security. The biggest advantage of online solutions is I don’t need to think about them like I do Time Machine.

However, no matter what way you do it, any backup is better than none!