Talking to many friends I am amazed at the number of them that don't back up their phones or computers, most have 100s (or more) Photos/Documents/Emails/PDF files etc, and when I ask what if your computer crashed or you lost your phone what would you do? Mmmmmm is usually their answer. Now it is not that hard to transfer everything to a USB/External HD or the cloud is it?...what do you do? if anything.
Do you? (Back up)
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Do you? (Back up)
I back up religiously
Right after getting my laptop back from the repair guy
Then
A couple weeks later I forget about it
,,,,until I get it back from the repair guy
I do have a backup drive that has all the important stuff
......from six years ago
Devi
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- East WA USA
I back up on the last day of every month to an external hard drive.
I also use Hekasoft Backup & Restore to back up my email and browser bookmarks.
https://hekasoft.com/hekasoft-backup-restore/
I manually back up my calendars.
I also delete the contents of some temp files before I do the backups.
Right now, I'm using an older copy of Acronis True Image to back up each of our computers to the external hard drives.
My favorite saying with regard to all this: having too many copies is better than none.
I also use Hekasoft Backup & Restore to back up my email and browser bookmarks.
https://hekasoft.com/hekasoft-backup-restore/
I manually back up my calendars.
I also delete the contents of some temp files before I do the backups.
Right now, I'm using an older copy of Acronis True Image to back up each of our computers to the external hard drives.
My favorite saying with regard to all this: having too many copies is better than none.
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Murrmurr
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Certain files (of my choosing) are backed-up automatically.
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
Nope.
My life isn't that complicated.
Most information is only important for a short period of time and eventually becomes stuff.
If I need to I can easily retrieve most things from the original source.
Family photos are available on FB.
About all, I would need to do is add a few important telephone numbers to my contact list.
My life isn't that complicated.
Most information is only important for a short period of time and eventually becomes stuff.
If I need to I can easily retrieve most things from the original source.
Family photos are available on FB.
About all, I would need to do is add a few important telephone numbers to my contact list.
Tish
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- Rural N.S.W. Australia
I back mine up once a week, twice if there is a Microsoft update.
Would not rely too much on Facebook if the photos are important, my Facebook was hacked lost everything, and the consequence was could not make a new Facebook until deleted the original account (email & login details)just saying!Nope.
My life isn't that complicated.
Most information is only important for a short period of time and eventually becomes stuff.
If I need to I can easily retrieve most things from the original source.
Family photos are available on FB.
About all, I would need to do is add a few important telephone numbers to my contact list.
katlupe
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- Norwich, NY
I do not use my phone for pictures. Just talking or texting. For my computer all the photos I take myself or want to save from other sources I put on an external hard drive. I don't even store them on the computer. I do the same with whatever I write.
horseless carriage
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Lee
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- Chatham, Ontario
Nope, cause I don't know how.....anyone care to explain how
WheatenLover
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- Georgia
I use an external hard drive. Photos are backed up there and in the cloud.
Pappy
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Mine are to the cloud. When I changed iPhones, all I had to do is bring the old phone near the new one and everything switched over automatically.
Mizmo
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- Ontario, Canada
I use USB for various files..back it up once a month or whenever there is anything important.
Main folder for Documents which includes folders all government, banking, contracts , Excel w/p . etc.,
Other folders for Music , Photos, and 'Stuff' which can have anything in it like gifs, jokes, whatever.
All on one 8GB USB.
I don't use cloud or any other on line storage. It is online and It can crash or be hacked too!
My mobile is strictly for phone calls and texting
Main folder for Documents which includes folders all government, banking, contracts , Excel w/p . etc.,
Other folders for Music , Photos, and 'Stuff' which can have anything in it like gifs, jokes, whatever.
All on one 8GB USB.
I don't use cloud or any other on line storage. It is online and It can crash or be hacked too!
My mobile is strictly for phone calls and texting
hawkdon
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- Liberty MO
Nope, don't know much about it, so have not tried to...
Geezer Garage
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- Steamboat Springs CO
Only when I get tired of going forward.
Don M.
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- central Missouri
I use an external HD and back up my files every couple of days. And, then, there is the "cloud" which MS say backs up the files daily.
hollydolly
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- London England
My photos are in the cloud , as well as on 3 External HD's.... along with PDF's and various docs...
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officerripley
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I too back up to an external hard drive; it's set to do an auto backup daily.
Dr. Jekyll
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- Florida
We're members of the Apple cult - so there's whatever iCloud stuff that happens automatically for photos and phone data etc.. I also have us both set up with a non-Apple cloud backup service that backs up our entire laptops in the background - set it and forget it. Gmail is my main mailbox, but since Google is know for occasional hiccups or randomly blocking you from you account for strange and unknown reasons, I also leave a local mail client running that downloads all the email and thus have a local copy of it as well.
shedevil7953
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- central Indiana
I back up daily to an eternal hard drive for my laptop and direct everything to SD card for phone. I don't trust the Cloud.
Jules
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Does anyone know of a device to backup an iPad to, besides the cloud? I backup to the cloud, but in the future would like to move all the old family photos to a secondary location.
Maybe I’m missing the big picture (pun intended), but I think the Apple set up of directories is dreadful. The other day I took photos of my jewellery and later as a test did a search by jewellery and then by rings. It found 4 photos of dozens. Not impressive.
Our non-Apple computer is backed up to an external drive regularly and a copy is kept in our safe deposit box. It might not have the latest info on that one but it’s something to work with.
Maybe I’m missing the big picture (pun intended), but I think the Apple set up of directories is dreadful. The other day I took photos of my jewellery and later as a test did a search by jewellery and then by rings. It found 4 photos of dozens. Not impressive.
Our non-Apple computer is backed up to an external drive regularly and a copy is kept in our safe deposit box. It might not have the latest info on that one but it’s something to work with.