Serves me right

[O.C.]

after suffering a catastrophic failure of my lap top I have now ordered a replacement from Dell, its a factory recon unit with a good warranty,  so should be okay for my needs.

However, here's the rub,.......I hadn't backed up my work for some time, and yes, I do have an external hard drive DOH . ..what a bloody dipstick   

So its taken me about 2 hours this morning to sort out the mess but I've managed to copy my files to discs...phew

So I'll have to keep using this tablet until the new laptop arrives next week

That's a mistake I'll be careful not to make again  ~~~ lesson learned       

[Lonewolf]

You should always back everything up! 

[virginiajim]

And then backup the backup!

[Lonewolf]

I always have three copies of everything I've created. Original on the PC. and then two further copies on external hard drives.

[mark1400]

"synctoy" is a free backup program, very easy to use, 2 or 3 clicks & its done. It remembers the folders or drives you want to back up & where to save them to including external drives. Also "aemoi backupper" is a free cloning prog so if a drive goes pear shaped just swap the drive & thats it.

Both progs have saved me many times.
I have 4 clones of my "C" drive, rolling backups every 2 weeks, done by backerupper & my other 5 drives are backed up by synctoy.

cheers.

[O.C.]

Yep, good advice there,  and as an old work colleague used to say   "that'll learn ya"      

[Debs]

Yep, good advice there,  and as an old work colleague used to say   "that'll learn ya"      

That really bugs me when people get Learn & Teach and Lend & Borrow round the wrong ways.. Retards.. The lot of them... 

[O.C.]

That really bugs me when people get Learn & Teach and Lend & Borrow round the wrong ways.. Retards.. The lot of them... 

  I'm a bit of a stickler fer good grammer I  are     

[virginiajim]

Me to...    

Another backup utility that I use is Second Copy.   I either back up to a secondary internal disk or an external USB connected disk.  There's also cloud backup options but I can't say that I'm real comfortable with those.

[O.C.]

My external back up is a Hitachi Simple Drive  with USB connection

I think having control over my back up is better than 'outsourcing '

That is of course if when I  remember to back up regularly         

[snowy]

I thought I was watertight, using Apple Mac time machine and a Western Digital network drive!
That was until I had to get some files back after an IOS upgrade - WD drive had a directory of all the backups, but no data inside them! 2 years of backups worth S.F.A!
Really worth checking size and contents of backups occasionally!
Should market a drive as "The mother-in-law"..................that almost always gets my back up!     

[PaulB]

  I'm a bit of a stickler fer good grammer I  are     

"Me? Fail English? Unpossible!"

Cheers

Paul B

[Boomer]

I backup all my files monthly by just copying my Data drive to a USB harddrive.
About every 3 months or so I also backup my most important stuff to DVD-Rs and those get passed to a friend who keeps them.
We do the same for each other so that even in the event of a house fire it's safe.
I work in IT and have seen too many disasters where the backups we not done or not viable.

[virginiajim]

IT as well...although with the systems I work with, it's very rare for a tape save to go bad.  Unfortunately, most leave the saves in the same room.

[snowy]

IT as well...although with the systems I work with, it's very rare for a tape save to go bad. 

Just thinking back to my old BBC "b" with 51/4" floppy disc............jeez! Thanks heavens things have moved on! 
How many FD's equates to a 64 micro SD card!