Back-up Computer Storage

[Glock Shooter]

I use www.mozy.com just had my HD crash and burn and was able to use Mozy Restore Manager to restore all of my files. I believe it costs me $10/month for 2 computers

[Hoosier]

They are a bit spendy, but if you want the advantages of RAID with a "Green good, Red bad" level of difficulty, the Drobo has been good to me.

http://drobo.com

H.

[Byte Stryke]

what I was going to do since he is running win7 is set his automatic backups all to the same Mapped NAS.

this eliminates the "I got too Busy and forgot" Syndrome.

[claimbuster]

I use a "Time Machine" to backup my iMac and am I glad. Last week my 8 month old iMac took a dump. Apple couldn't fix it and gave me a new one today. When I got home I plugged in the Time Machine and in 30-45 minutes everything was restored. Good lesson learned!

[ChadAmberg]

The Windows 7 automatic full backups to an external hard drive works great. I've had to do about a dozen restores with it. The restore process is: boot off win7 dvd. Select recovery and it'll find the backup, confirm everything, and come back in about an hour to a complete restore of everything just like it was when it was backed up. All programs, data, settings, etc., exact. The key is, just make sure you're doing the backups.

[Byte Stryke]

The Windows 7 automatic full backups to an external hard drive works great. I've had to do about a dozen restores with it. The restore process is: boot off win7 dvd. Select recovery and it'll find the backup, confirm everything, and come back in about an hour to a complete restore of everything just like it was when it was backed up. All programs, data, settings, etc., exact. The key is, just make sure you're doing the backups.

You may also map a network drive location and perform your backups there.
So that if you have multiple computers all on the same network you may put all of your backups in one location.

saves you from having to buy multiple external drives or having to shuffle a drive from machine to machine.

[ChadAmberg]

You may also map a network drive location and perform your backups there.
So that if you have multiple computers all on the same network you may put all of your backups in one location.

saves you from having to buy multiple external drives or having to shuffle a drive from machine to machine.

For the full bare metal restore with Win7, it has to be a local drive, since it won't bring up a network share to do restores from.
Now, for individual files it works great though...

[Byte Stryke]

For the full bare metal restore with Win7, it has to be a local drive, since it won't bring up a network share to do restores from.
Now, for individual files it works great though...

which we hope only happens once in a great while.
Disconnect it from the network, connect the USB and go.

but as far as backups go, there is a reason they can be scheduled and automated.

fire and forget is the new "efficiency"