When a friend set up her Time Machine she didn't choose just a few folders to back up, she chose them all. A few months later the HD was full. I don't back up every folder, what do you?
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When a friend set up her Time Machine she didn't choose just a few folders to back up, she chose them all. A few months later the HD was full. I don't back up every folder, what do you?
Graham and Green
Pierre Hardy
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Just my documents really. I'll drag and drop the Music, Pics and anything I'm editing at the time, but don't use Time Machine for that b/c I don't want multiple copies of those folders.
- "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." - Ferris Bueller
1I don't use Time Machine either. I just manually backup my Documents folder and my iTunes library.
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—Coco Chanel
2I have a partition so I only have my OS on my C drive, then all my documents, music, photos, media and web projects on a partitioned E drive. That way, if I ever have to reinstall windows, I won't lose everything and don't have to worry about backups so much.
But I do have an 80G external harddrive that I update with everything every six months. I just move my entire E drive over to the external drive. It's all files, there aren't any programs installed on there or anything - so that is just easiest for me.
3I manually backup everything I wouldn't want to lose to an external harddrive, and for some files I keep another copy on my extra computer. I've had my gorgeous G5 and a 23 inch monitor stolen from my office at work, so I've learned my lesson about backing up files.
4anything i would be sad if i lost. mainly pics
5I back up Document and Pictures (but not downloads, I move those to another drive when finished). I don't back up Music and Video as I store these on separate hard drives. I back up my entire Firefox profile, which includes all my extensions, grease monkey scripts, scrapbook pages, passwords and macros. I use Mozbackup which makes the whole lot into a neat file. Then whenever I format and reinstall Firefox I can have my profile back instantly, just how I set it up. I back up my Thunderbird profiles, though not the emails, I always leave a copy on the server and can redownload them. I also back up all non-Microsoft drivers, my network settings, Microsoft OneNote, my launchy settings and my Dragon configuration. Oh, and my newsgroups and GrabIt settings. You only have to lose this stuff once to make you realise how important backing up is.
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