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motherface
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 Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:07 Post subject: How do you backup your stuff nowadays?
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How does everybody backup their massive media libraries? I have quite a collection now, maybe 50 gigs or so, of stuff that I will be sad to lose if my disks die. Is there a program that will archive your disk into 4.7 gig isos so you can burn them to dvd? Or is there another way to do this? Or does everybody just not back shit up?
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goatface
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:46 Post subject:
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for stuff i want to keep, i will get all the files to around 700megs or less
(for big single files, will split them up into 200meg files with winrar)
then make 3gb groups and then make 1.4gb of .par repair files for that
burn all that to dvd.
so in theory most times i could lose 20% of the data on each disk, but still be able to repair it.
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
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Ishmael
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:47 Post subject:
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I don't. It doesn't take that long to redownload everything I need. Plus I don't suck d**k so my computer never crashes. That's prolly the best method.
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myndwarrp
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:55 Post subject:
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I use winrar/quickpar/iso image method myself. Also use Ghost for my OS disk.
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Owyyn
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 19:57 Post subject:
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I just burn as plain old data to a 4.3Gb DVD.
What's the point of backing up the OS? Just reinstall it.
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Zuldane
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: At sea.
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 20:03 Post subject:
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I backup any school documents/notes on a 512mb flash drive. Downloaded anime is stored on DVD's.
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Soriak
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 20:06 Post subject:
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I archive files I want to keep on a second HDD on my desktop PC. Important files (documents and stuff) get backed up on a DVD as well. Pictures from vacations each get their own CD 
Things like TV shows I can live without if the drive ever crashes. Other stuff is redownloaded in a few hours, not worth the trouble trying to back them up.
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myndwarrp
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 20:09 Post subject:
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| Owyyn wrote: | I just burn as plain old data to a 4.3Gb DVD.
What's the point of backing up the OS? Just reinstall it. |
I dont back it up, I have it imaged. If I do a full reinstall, there are 7 or 8 other programs I install on the same drive as my OS (MS office, spyware shit, antivirus shit, etc). By having an image of all that it only takes me 20 minutes to do a complte reinstall 
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IceIsFun
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Orlando, FL
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 20:17 Post subject:
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I have a 2.5" 100GB external HDD that I keep synced with my data partition at work and my data partition at home. If any of the three (physically unconnected) drives fail, there are always two backups available.
I don't store most downloaded movies on a HDD, rather simply in a book of 20ish DL-DVDs.
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motherface
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 20:21 Post subject:
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| Soriak wrote: | | Things like TV shows I can live without if the drive ever crashes. Other stuff is redownloaded in a few hours, not worth the trouble trying to back them up. |
Yeah, but I have 10 years worth of MP3s, and that is specifically what I want to back up. Downloading/ripping 500 albums is not something you can do "in a few hours." I should probably just get some big disks and setup a nice raid 01. I've just had such bad luck with disks, I figure I'm about due for one to fail soon.
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Zimzulu
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 23:35 Post subject: Re: How do you backup your stuff nowadays?
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| motherface wrote: | | How does everybody backup their massive media libraries? I have quite a collection now, maybe 50 gigs or so, of stuff that I will be sad to lose if my disks die. Is there a program that will archive your disk into 4.7 gig isos so you can burn them to dvd? Or is there another way to do this? Or does everybody just not back shit up? |
Veritas BackupExec is capable of using DVD's (or any storage device for that matter really) as storage devices. It also perform software compreshion of your files if you want it to (which depending on your file types could decrease size drastically.
It has a 60 day free trial so you could use it legally, but I'm sure there are also torrents out there.
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Zimzulu
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Posted: 03/05/06 - 23:38 Post subject:
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PS, you can perform restores with NT(Windows) Backup with backup exec if you ever needed.
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Luturb
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Posted: 03/06/06 - 00:51 Post subject:
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I just have 3 computers, and put files I don't want to lose on the hard drives of all 3 of them. Transfer files by pulling the HD out of one computer and putting it in the other one and copying stuff from one to the other. I don't have anything I would be terribly upset to lose though.
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Aviger
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Posted: 03/06/06 - 07:52 Post subject:
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I have a 1.2 TB fileserver running raid 5 upstairs.
It has all my movies, series and important shit on it.
If i read up right up to 4 of the 6 discs can fail at once and i can still rebuild the data.
Just incase that goes down, i have an external 300gb disc with important data that i cant redownload easy which i keep at my parents.
The chances of both our places getting robbed/burned down are so small it would mean a global disaster and frankly, my porn would't really matter then 
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Luturb
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Posted: 03/06/06 - 13:03 Post subject:
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Why do people collect porn when there is pretty much an unlimited supply for free on the internet? Do you go watch any of that stuff or is just just to have it? I know people with hundreds of gigs of porn, but I can't imagine that they watch even a tiny fraction of it. Hard to imagine what it's for.
Remember, if you have porn on your hard drive and you die, your mother will look at your computer and find out what a perv her little boy was!
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