Have you backed up recently? Cautionary tale

Ms Naughty · 2005-03-02, 07:02 PM

We have a toolbox full of backup harddrives which we keep offsite. The plan was that every month we'd ghost my harddrive so that I'd always have a recent backup. Unfortunately time got away so I was overdue for a backup. Luke was trying to make use of a new removeable hard drive case which we suspect is what caused the problem - there must have been a fault with the connections in it somewhere.

Anyway the drive is a Seagate Barracuda. With changing out the circuitry, Luke just unscrewed the entire electronics plate and screwed on another from the same brand of hard drive. It was a bit of a risk, we didn't know if it would work, so it was kind of like a scene from ER, with the loud heartbeat and heavy tension. The short had happened in the upper right hand corner of the circuitry, away from the actual drive, so we think that helped.

Sorry if this isn't a very technical explanation.

Does anyone have suggestions for an easy to use Windows based backup program? I find myself wishing there was something that was able to pick out all the recently changed files and only back those up rather than regularly cloning the whole thing.

2005-03-02, 07:02 PM	#6
Ms Naughty old enough to be Grandma Scrotum Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,408	We have a toolbox full of backup harddrives which we keep offsite. The plan was that every month we'd ghost my harddrive so that I'd always have a recent backup. Unfortunately time got away so I was overdue for a backup. Luke was trying to make use of a new removeable hard drive case which we suspect is what caused the problem - there must have been a fault with the connections in it somewhere. Anyway the drive is a Seagate Barracuda. With changing out the circuitry, Luke just unscrewed the entire electronics plate and screwed on another from the same brand of hard drive. It was a bit of a risk, we didn't know if it would work, so it was kind of like a scene from ER, with the loud heartbeat and heavy tension. The short had happened in the upper right hand corner of the circuitry, away from the actual drive, so we think that helped. Sorry if this isn't a very technical explanation. Does anyone have suggestions for an easy to use Windows based backup program? I find myself wishing there was something that was able to pick out all the recently changed files and only back those up rather than regularly cloning the whole thing. __________________ Promote Bright Desire