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Poll: What type of backups do you carry out? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What type of backups do you carry out?".
This poll was originally submitted by MartinPorto. View the poll results »
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Julian Holmes Japan Local time: 22:02 Member (2011) Japanese to English Suspiciously similar poll! | Feb 19, 2012 |
The January 13 poll this year was titled "Do you have network attached storage?" The issue of data backups was passionately and exhaustively discussed in this poll. Is this yet another rehashed poll? Added the following: I also wrote the following in another recent rehashed poll "Have you increased your rates for 2012?" When you suggest a poll, one of the guidelines on the S... See more The January 13 poll this year was titled "Do you have network attached storage?" The issue of data backups was passionately and exhaustively discussed in this poll. Is this yet another rehashed poll? Added the following: I also wrote the following in another recent rehashed poll "Have you increased your rates for 2012?" When you suggest a poll, one of the guidelines on the Suggest a Poll page is, would you believe "Ensure that a similar question has not been asked recently by searching for key terms". Maybe some double-checking would come in handy! I'm lost. Could someone enlighten me?
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neilmac Spain Local time: 14:02 Spanish to English + ... USB pen drive | Feb 19, 2012 |
An 8 or, at a push, a 16 Gig memory stick is enough for my needs. I had an external hard drive which went phut after about 6 months of low-volume use and I was surprised to find that this is normal. They simply give you a new one! I decided it wasn't worth the bother and for now the USB pen does the job. | | |
Michael Harris Germany Local time: 14:02 Member (2006) German to English Other - extra hard disk? | Feb 19, 2012 |
I use an external hard disk - 1GB, does the job | |
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But it would be great if this poll included Internet backup (I use both).
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I outgrew the smaller ones and now have 1 terabyte for each computer. I tried Internet storage, but it's took expensive for the volume of my files. | | |
Impressive file volumes, Muriel! | Feb 19, 2012 |
Muriel Vasconcellos wrote: I outgrew the smaller ones and now have 1 terabyte for each computer. I tried Internet storage, but it's took expensive for the volume of my files. | | |
Gotomypc for transferring files between my computers (Lisbon+Brussels+laptop) + Dropbox + occasionally a pen drive. | |
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Thayenga Germany Local time: 14:02 Member (2009) English to German + ...
The temporary (weekly) backup is on CD-R. Once a month - time permitting - all CD-R content is transered to an external hard drive. Having two copies can't hurt. | | |
No harm in repeating this particular topic | Feb 19, 2012 |
If it serves to remind the less organised to safeguard their work! | | |
Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 13:02 Hebrew to English Rehashed polls reaching epidemic levels.... | Feb 19, 2012 |
Yawn. I totally agree with Julian...and I'm finding it increasingly hard to be polite about it. | | |
Julian Holmes Japan Local time: 22:02 Member (2011) Japanese to English What is going on? | Feb 19, 2012 |
Ty, couldn't agree more! Ty Kendall wrote: Yawn. I totally agree with Julian...and I'm finding it increasingly hard to be polite about it. Oh! By the way, this poll was suggested by the one and the same person as the Jan 13 poll. So, hey everybody, that's basically an identical poll "originated" by the same person getting a rerun in five weeks! Aren't the rules and criteria for getting polls posted becoming arbitrary and capricious? | |
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and external hard drive. The latter is in case I have to do a really full system backup, if i want to upgrade my system. But for most of my documents the USD pen is good enough. | | |
Isabelle F. BRUCHER (X) Belgium Local time: 14:02 English to French + ... External HD (Transcend StoreJet 25M, 650 Gb) + DropBox.com (2 Gb for free) | Feb 19, 2012 |
Stanislaw Czech wrote: But it would be great if this poll included Internet backup (I use both).
[Edited at 2012-02-19 09:16 GMT] Cloud computing/Internet backups are also great against computer / external HD / USB pen / CD-R theft / loss / damaging through fire / shocks / etc. ! Plus you can access the files from any computer on Earth ! | | |
Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 09:02 English to Spanish + ... No word about software utilities | Feb 19, 2012 |
Thayenga wrote: The temporary (weekly) backup is on CD-R. Once a month - time permitting - all CD-R content is transered to an external hard drive. Having two copies can't hurt. I thought CD-Rs were on their way out, but they could be useful as a temporary backup solution. How about DVDs or Blue-Ray ROM discs instead? Nah, too expensive, right? A combination of external hard drives for keeping a second set of data, a cloned disk in my desktop computer in case of catastrophic HDD failure, and weekly backups with Acronis is pretty much all I need. P.S. To the early comments that these are rehashed polls, I agree. Some of you guys have a better memory than I! | | |
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