| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Poll: How often do make a backup of your work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| | Mary Worby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:43
German to English
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Everything is automatically backed up to a NAS device every night. We recently moved over from a tape-based system. Touch wood, I don't remember ever having to use the backup but I'm very glad it's there.
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 22:43
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Daily, of course. | Jul 12, 2011 |
Every evening I do a backup on a Memory stick.
And it did come in handy once.
| | | | Simon Cole
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:43
Member (2008)
French to English
I voted Daily, but actually back up at the end of a project, document or before lunch (to a 2nd internal hard disk) and after accepting and setting up a new project.
At the end of the day to the 2nd internal HD and an external HD.
This way, even if I delete something by accident, I can recover it from the Recycle bin or the int/ext HD.
I also have a UPS to protect against power cuts.
Paranoia? Yes, right up to the moment when you need it!
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Vibeke Degn-P
Norway
Local time: 22:43
Member (2010)
English to Norwegian
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| Every time I press save | Jul 12, 2011 |
Every time I press save, the file is uploaded to an internetbased backup, so I do backup of my work very, very often.
And my backup has saved me several times:
* When my computer broke down
* When my cat broke my computer down
* That time when Trados broke down and deleted everything just before delivery of a huge project.
* When I was away on holdiday and the customer had "lost" my translation. Then I could log on to my backup, find the file and send it from a bo... See more Every time I press save, the file is uploaded to an internetbased backup, so I do backup of my work very, very often.
And my backup has saved me several times:
* When my computer broke down
* When my cat broke my computer down
* That time when Trados broke down and deleted everything just before delivery of a huge project.
* When I was away on holdiday and the customer had "lost" my translation. Then I could log on to my backup, find the file and send it from a borrowed computer.
Life without constant backup would be a life with sleepless nights.
Vibeke ▲ Collapse
| | | | Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:43
French to English
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| Daily + when necessary | Jul 12, 2011 |
I've just been experiencing huge problems with my 5-year-old computer and I'm so glad I subscribe to Mozy which does an automatic back-up of all my files every evening. I have had to restore files on a handful of occasions over the years and it makes it a very worthwhile subscription! I've also been backing up to Dropbox when I'm in the middle of a long project, just in case I can't access my main computer, so can work on any of my other computers that have Dropbox installed - also a lifesaver! ... See more I've just been experiencing huge problems with my 5-year-old computer and I'm so glad I subscribe to Mozy which does an automatic back-up of all my files every evening. I have had to restore files on a handful of occasions over the years and it makes it a very worthwhile subscription! I've also been backing up to Dropbox when I'm in the middle of a long project, just in case I can't access my main computer, so can work on any of my other computers that have Dropbox installed - also a lifesaver! The computer repair chap who came round at some point in the repair process told me that you should ideally have three back-ups - one off-site, one on a hard drive and one on CD or a data stick! That seems slightly over the top to me, but I suppose for really important files, it might be worth considering.
We ended up jettisoning my old computer in the end, having wiped and then reinstalled the whole operating system, but it was still freezing and obviously had a corrupt hard disc (which didn't show on the hard disc diagnostics process!). All my files are now up-and-running on a new computer, but back-up will remain a priority! ▲ Collapse
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:43
Spanish to English
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I never used to back up much, but nowadays I usually save my work folder, which contains all the client folders and TMs, etc, for the past few years, every day or two, or at least a couple of times a week, on a pen drive.
I bought an exterior hard drive a couple of years ago to back up my whole hard disk, but it was a pain, very slow, and there was always something which couldn't be saved /copied, and it conked out after about 6 months and, true to form, I hadn't kept the receipt... See more I never used to back up much, but nowadays I usually save my work folder, which contains all the client folders and TMs, etc, for the past few years, every day or two, or at least a couple of times a week, on a pen drive.
I bought an exterior hard drive a couple of years ago to back up my whole hard disk, but it was a pain, very slow, and there was always something which couldn't be saved /copied, and it conked out after about 6 months and, true to form, I hadn't kept the receipt (always keep your receipt, folks!).
The pen drive works fine though, and I update the work folder onto my backup PCs on a quite regular basis so if one crashes, I always have a more or less recent version of everything to hand. ▲ Collapse
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:43
Spanish to English
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Simon Cole wrote:
I also have a UPS to protect against power cuts.
Paranoia? Yes, right up to the moment when you need it!
A must-have in my area, where power surges, brownouts and occasional scary thunderstorms are the norm. I recenty invested in surge-breakers for the sockets too, just in case. Better safe than sorry!
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:43
Spanish to English
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| Security issues? | Jul 12, 2011 |
[quote]Vibeke Degn-P wrote:
"Every time I press save, the file is uploaded to an internetbased backup ..."
I just wonder if anyone share my instinctive reservations about storing all their info in a cybercloud somewhere like this, or is just an old geezer's incipient technofear?
| | | | Steven Capsuto
United States
Local time: 16:43
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
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| Other: Manually, several times a day | Jul 12, 2011 |
Why is it assumed that "several times a day" is synonymous with automatic backup systems?
| | | | | Cloud storage makes it easy | Jul 12, 2011 |
I backup to a cloud storage mirror of my documents folder before I leave the house with my laptop (which is password protected), just in case it goes missing. I do the same if I have done a large amount of work and would hate to lose it. Otherwise, it is about weekly. I back up to an external hard drive a little less frequently as that is useful for restoring the entire system if I have to change computers for any reason (or upgrade my hard drive as I did recently).
I wrote an artic... See more I backup to a cloud storage mirror of my documents folder before I leave the house with my laptop (which is password protected), just in case it goes missing. I do the same if I have done a large amount of work and would hate to lose it. Otherwise, it is about weekly. I back up to an external hard drive a little less frequently as that is useful for restoring the entire system if I have to change computers for any reason (or upgrade my hard drive as I did recently).
I wrote an article a while ago in praise of cloud storage if anyone wants to know more. Not only did cloud storage save me when my laptop died, I was able to continue working virtually uninterrupted:
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2291/
I use IMAP for my emails, so they remain on the server and I can access them online. In fact, I use mail forwarding to the IMAP system so I have duplicate online backups. See:
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2384/1/Using-IMAP-for-emails-provides-backup-and-ease-of-access ▲ Collapse
| | | | Vibeke Degn-P
Norway
Local time: 22:43
Member (2010)
English to Norwegian
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[quote]neilmac wrote:
Vibeke Degn-P wrote:
"Every time I press save, the file is uploaded to an internetbased backup ..."
I just wonder if anyone share my instinctive reservations about storing all their info in a cybercloud somewhere like this, or is just an old geezer's incipient technofear?
Oh, I care about security, trust me. Of course, I decide what files are beeing uploaded, by deciding what folder I store it in. Not all folders are automatically backed up.
But most of my work is meant to be published, either in books, magazines or newspapers. Being true to a deadline in a tight production line is far more important than the very theoretical scenario that someone would hack my backup account in order to get their hands on a cookbook a month before it hits the stores.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 22:43
Member (2006)
German to English
backup during the day or a backup of the whole system?
The first, several times a day and the latter, once a week
| | | | Anthony Baldwin
United States
Local time: 16:43
Portuguese to English
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I hvae an external usb hard drive, and once a month I plug it in and do
rsync -rvua /home/tony /media/Elements/
But, since I use Debian GNU/Linux Stable, I've not once in 10 years needed it for software issues.
Once I had a hard drive fail, back in 2006 (it was old).
Also, when I bought a new kit this winter, it was handy for moving all my stuff onto the new machine.
| | | | | As a member of that shamefaced group... | Jul 12, 2011 |
...called "only when I remember" (which is actually pretty often in my case), perhaps we should petition Proz to run a poll as often as possible with variations on this question, since it's a pretty good reminder to do one of your sporadic back-ups!
And for the procrastinators, reading about all the automatic systems again and again may finally pitch us over into doing something about making our back-up provision more reliable.
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