Documents, music, and art, but not much else.

No I do not, but I need to

I am living in the backup-bliss that is Time Machine.

I never do back-ups. I really should, seeing how I already paid the price of 150 GBs worth of lost music, writing and saved games... but I don't.

Stubborn that way I suppose.

i wish i knew someone that used those solid state drives to see if that really is the answer to constantly having to play HDD roulette or risking file corruption with each defrag
for right now i just hang on to the HDD out of my old system and do quarterly ghosting

No I don't, and I know better.

You ARE running a shredding program to destroy all of the data on the hard drive, right???

I try to make back ups but when I do I tend to lose something in the process.

I'm looking at getting an external hard drive.

Primarily so I can back up my data in order to reformat my partitions. I use Linux, and I'm thinking of formating my ext3 partitions to ext4 when the next Kubuntu comes out. I also have two FAT32 partitions that I want to reformat to either ext3 or ext4.

Then I figure I'll continue using the external drive as a backup. But I don't know how often I'll end up actually backing stuff up. I know I won't have it running all the time.

Monthly, though I'm trying to get in the habit of doing backups weekly.

Anyway, to save yourself some time (or to avoid risking an unpatched Windows PC being on the 'Net) during the fun Windows format/reinstall/update process, check out Offline Update. Especially if you think you'll be doing this again in the future.

Essentially, it lets you roll your own Windows service pack by downloading all the current service packs and updates from a fully patched system of your choice (ideally, one with a lightning-fast 'Net connection), then creating a burnable CD/DVD image that, once burned, you can take to an unpatched system to update before ever having to take it online. If you think you'll need to rebuild the system again within the next year or so, then keep the burned CD with the restore disks so it'll need that many fewer updates next time around.

Just unzip and run; there's nothing to install. The burnable images are saved in the "isos" folder within the unzipped folder.

http://www.h-online.com/security/Do.....features/80682

http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/off.....nload_uk.shtml

And I need to learn to read a bit more. Already waiting for the updates to download, I now see. Yeah, that sucks. :(

I usually double save files both onto an internal and an external HD. I also back up to DVDs roughly twice a year, more often for important files... And I keep stories and such that I've written in printed form as well... Yeah, I've lost way too many important files in the past (1,000+ page book I was almost finished writing) to let it happen anymore.

Don't backup anything i have. If i loose it...I can probobly get it again...My system and PC care is greater than that: I clean my Pc's box yearly from dust, and my keyboard monthly and my mouse weekly.Also i have time to run several programs for making my system faster a more stable. Also i really hack my windows aside, meaning i ELLIMINATE ALL UNWANTED FEATS from the system i don't need. Why am i needing a one button combination langugage support for korean keybord, when i live in Hungary? Killed it. Why i need hybernating my system, when i either here and working or not here and my pc is shut down. Killed it. Low space allert-Who needs it?...killed it...Reboot on fatal error-I don't have fatal errors but if i do then don't f*cking reboot my pc!..killed it...etc...etc...
So i like to control what my system makes and also like to do it with clean input devices. But i don't backup anything. I had a 3 years old WinXP as system. The fact i reinstaled my windows, 'cause i buyed a new PC in '08 summer. And my system is still in one piece since then. Just one of my skills: PcWizz.

I have to backup frequently.

I don't backup *regularly*, exactly, more like randomly. But yeah, I've got an external harddrive for saving all my stuff.

occasionally but not often as i should

I learned that hard lesson about three years back when I had a hard drive fail without warning. I lost a lot of files that really meant a lot to me --things I had been saving for nearly ten years. Since then, I make it a point to backup my files once a month. (At least the files that I have created, such as my artwork, photographs, stories, programs, notes, etc... I don't backup most of the things that I've downloaded, such as music, porn, or software.)

I back up art, music, major programs and .cbr files (scanned "pirate" comic books). I haven't had a major problem in a long while, but why take chances, especially when backup (discs, flash drives) are so cheap these days?

Not really most of what I have is on a sepirate HD. I only had to backup once but that was due to the main HD being faulty.