Macrium Backups, An Important Lesson for Those Who Don't Backup

That's a great reminder. When you suddenly loose access to a large chunk of important data you can really get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. I've spoken with people who have lost as much as 10 years of business critical data. How you can have no backups of data with that level of importance has always eluded me

Also, consider backing up to a usb external drive that you can keep offsite. Take it to work with you, leave it at a family members house, etc. This way if your house floods or catches fire you have a backup that is safe.

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SoFine409 said:

Earlier today I wanted to add a PDF to my iPad. When I tried to drag and drop it into the Books section using iTunes, it wouldn't copy. Further, I noticed that I was unable to sync or backup any devices, nor could I see any of my previous device backups. Oh dear, not good.

Well, I tried reinstalling iTunes but no joy. It tried installing older versions of iTunes. Still no joy. So I began to suspect the iTunes wasn't the problem but something in Windows or possibly some other software update.
I started restoring Macrium backups and it didn't take long to find out that the problem started just a few days ago. Running deferential or incremental backups at the end of every working session saved the day for me. Except for having to recover some updated location markers I had made to MyPlaces in Google Earth Pro from yesterdays differential backup, I was up and running again within 20 minutes.

Lessons are that making incremental or differential backups often is necessary. I do them every day or before I make any significant system additions/changes. Next, get a backup drive or NAS as large as you can afford so you can keep a sufficiently long history of backups, you never know how far back a problem started. The other thing is to separate your data from your OS, I have mine on separate disks so restoring the OS didn't impact my data. Don't wait until disaster strikes, it eventually will.

Hi there
don't forget to backup NAS stuff once in a while too !!!! especially if your data is no longer on the Windows PC and you want to keep it. A cheap external self powered passport 4TB USB3 drive makes a good device for this purpose.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
don't forget to backup NAS stuff once in a while too !!!! especially if your data is no longer on the Windows PC and you want to keep it. A cheap external self powered passport 4TB USB3 drive makes a good device for this purpose.

Cheers
jimbo

OK... What does NAS mean?

Network Attached Storage
Then there is also SAN which is Storage Area Network

Edit:

More info:

NAS is file based storage, SAN is block based storage.

Thanks!