About a year ago I bought an Apple Time Machine as an external automatic backup. I'm SO lucky I did. This morning my external drive (with ALL my work on it) would not wake up! Instead of panicking I just had to access my backup on Time Machine and restore the files I needed immediately. Now I'm going to head out to Best Buy and get a new hard drive to replace the old one and restore all my files.

If you're not backing up regularly I highly recommend you do. An automatic backup like Time Machine works in the background so you don't even have to think about it.

Haha i haven't made a backup in a while :) Thanks for reminding ;)

It's nice to see off-the-shelf devices like these helping making a backup process easier, but I've seen such a high failure rate in the field that I just can't trust them for backup.

I've always rolled my own online solution using my co-lo resources, but personally for the last year I've been using one of the paid online services and I'm pretty happy with the trade-offs, which is really only lack of API support and the annual fee. I just paid $55 US for a year with one service and have to say I'm pretty comfortable with the overall security of my data.

Offsite just seems like a good way to go at this time.

I'm going to agree with Akronix. I'm going to signing up for Mozy or similar soon now that I am on a Mac.

Previously my PC I was running a raid setup, and backed up to an external drive (kept in a a cheapo walmart fire safe) which wasn't done as nearly as often as I should.

Gotta love RAID

OB - The truth is I hacked your rig and tried to steal all your Golds. It was my plan to then sell them to newbies eager for Logo Court voting rights! ...;-)

https://www.dropbox.com/

Super cool! Back up and sync your files across all devices free 2gig and good prices for more.

I'm now using Mozy for my iMac. It's nice to know if my computer is stolen, fire, flood, earthquake, etc. that my data is safe.

SC0TT wrote:

Gotta love RAID

Yea, I dont usually mess with external backups.

I just raid1 my main HD.

I do have an additional external drive that I got as a gift that I use just as an extra precaution.