Your back up or external storage solutions for your PC?

**ghosthunter** · April 13th, 2011 11:09 AM

What kind of back up system do you use for your PC?

Do you use external drives? Mirroring? Burning to CD/DVD?

**ghosthunter** · April 13th, 2011 11:11 AM

Currently I am using a USB to SATA dock and internal SATA HDD as backup for my stuff at home.

At my office, my server has a daily data backup to USB flash drive (rotating between three flash drives) along with the server's HDD mirroring.

**CVT** · April 13th, 2011 11:45 AM

Personal files,- external drive.

Office Files (Emails, Reports, Studies et al) - IT takes care of it. However, I do my own backups on DVDs. There is a document retention policy in our office, though.

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**testament11** · April 13th, 2011 12:02 PM

I have one external drive for backing up my files. I plan to buy another one para exclusive lang sa mga photos ko

**ghosthunter** · April 13th, 2011 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by CVT

Personal files,- external drive.

Office Files (Emails, Reports, Studies et al) - IT takes care of it. However, I do my own backups on DVDs. There is a document retention policy in our office, though.

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Your DVD backups are kept over a year? No issues with CD-rot?

**CVT** · April 13th, 2011 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by ghosthunter

Your DVD backups are kept over a year? No issues with CD-rot?

I still have those DVDs since 3-4 years ago (office emails - against company policy...

)

The last time I checked them, which was early this year,- the files are still intact....

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**ghosthunter** · April 13th, 2011 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by CVT

I still have those DVDs since 3-4 years ago (office emails - against company policy...

)

The last time I checked them, which was early this year,- the files are still intact....

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How did you check your files? ... Did you just list them or did you actually opened them or tried copying them temporarily to another drive?

My defective CDs might show me the list of files/folders but fails to read/copy the actual file.

**CVT** · April 13th, 2011 01:07 PM

I copied a couple to my hard disk. Then, added them to my Outlook Mails Folder, and opened them using Outlook. I still can read my old emails....

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**MXFX** · April 13th, 2011 02:00 PM

i burn and verify files (mostly pics and videos) on taiyo yuden dvdrs. still good after a few years but also looking to add external hd, or just buy a bigger drive to add to my desktop.