No excuse any more for failing to take decent Backups

I guess if you expect the doomsday, you should save backups in a bunker.

I understand it was not the Air Force but Air Forces. But at the time I did not understand the difference. I was only 7 years old and burning houses and burning people left a lifetime impression.

whs said:

I don't understand that emphasis on backups at a different location. If your house burns down you have bigger things to worry about than some files. And how often does that happen. I have seen that last time in 1943/44 when the friendly US Air force bombarded us.

I keep all business records on my computer. I wouldn't be able to survive without them. Also have pictures of kids and grandkids that haven't been printed.

I always kept a backup in a safe deposit box at the bank. After a major hurricane (lost the roof to my office but not my data) I realized the bank could have been damaged and it took weeks for them to reopen. I could have been out of business for a month! Realized then that I had to get my offsite backup into a different geographical location and moved to a cloud service.

Hmm, hurricanes. I understand that this can be a problem. But in the Black Forest we never have hurricanes. And I live on a mountain that will never flood.

Hi,

As far as my system drive is concerned, I don't have a back up. I like to reconfigure the whole darn thing every so often anyway, so I don't feel the need to back up my OS and other programs.

Why not make at least one back up of the system ? Especially when one wants to changes things every so often ...?
I mean, what's the point of having all these important files backed up when all of a sudden you're without a system to continue that work, right ?

Ever since I've had W10 crash on me a couple of times, admittedly quite some time ago, I just keep a spare drive with the OS on so I can just pop it in when needed.

Cheers,