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How do you backup your data at home?
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:49AM
I have multiple computers with redundant files between them. I make it a habit to copy important files to at least one other computer on a regular basis. I have a few loose harddisks sitting around which have backups of stuff, as well as CDs, DVDs, CF cards, and USB flash chips (and I guess you could say EPROMs and floppy disks, although I don't count those as backups). A few things are also uploaded to my shared hosting webspace.
So far this strategy has worked pretty well. I was talking to one of my old classmates recently about playing games in DOSbox, and he asked if I had any copies of a game he had been writing back in the mid '90s but lost the source code to. I remembered the game he was talking about so I scoured my files and ended up finding three different versions of it.
One thing I did lose, because it was in a .ZIP file which became corrupt, was a Super Soaker DOOM mod I had made. I think I uploaded it to AOL. Anyone out there have SOAKER.WAD? ;)