Computer

My wife tried backing her computer up earlier. :drive:

Unsurprisingly,


it crashed. :coat:

Backing up valuable stuff can be a nightmare. Keep it all in cyberspace (email the good stuff to yourself) so that you can access it later, and from anywhere.

That's my solution anyhow.

Use a bare metal backup program like redo and / or a sync to a external drive / NAS box. Also if windows is kaput run a linux live cd to recover your files and jobs a gud un

please tell me that the joke didn't go over both your heads guys :slapme:

:omg: I think it did!!!

Yep quick response though

Andy the tyre man wrote: :omg: I think it did!!!

I got there in the end. :broon: :lol:

i think it's mean of Andy to pitch that one at us sleep deprived folk :lol:

It does bring up an important point though, backup, backup, backup.

Otherwise your car will be in the middle of the road and not in your drive

Andy the tyre man wrote: My wife tried backing her computer up earlier. :drive:

Unsurprisingly,


it crashed. :coat:

Naughty :spank:



oooooooh I have not used my stick for awhile so have 3 more

:spank: :spank: :spank:

Mal7921 wrote: It does bring up an important point though, backup, backup, backup.

Otherwise your car will be in the middle of the road and not in your drive

And test a restore the amount of failed restores due to none existent testing .

Google crashplan they spot on and have free storage too :beer:

Oh I spent 6 years working as a consultant in system backup, restore and storage. Everything from windows backup, up to high end EMC storage.

The number of businesses that were relying only on simple RAID arrays to keep the data integrity was frightening.

Backup is one of those things that people either don't appreciate, or don't do properly (if at all in many cases), yet for most of us these days is the difference between keeping and losing a huge number of memories (pictures, emails, music, etc, etc).

I know its boring, but backup of your data is important, don't become someone who realizes this after losing everything when a hard drive fails!