[BlowFish]

I am increasingly using 'cloud' storage (out on the ineterweb) for things I consider important. Having said that I am of the school of thought that it is good to reformat and start from scratch now and then. Really what I consider important isn't really....There are a few indicators that took blood sweat and tears to create (even though I don't use them regularly). There are odd web clippings that are really neat (but I never read them). I even have tick data going back years (of instruments I no longer trade).

Identifying what is important to you and having a strategy in place to protect it is worthwhile. Backing up everything does no harm either . Murphys law would suggest that as soon as you discard something you will need it!

[nickm001]

I would first suggest to organize the drive in such a way that it is easy to do backups... Create one ( or more) boot partitions that has OS and Apps only. 30 Gb is usually sufficient for those... All your personal data should go in the Data partition, and filed in the appropriate folders.. Then you can use imaging SW ( like acronis) to image boot partition and also use either acronis or other backup sw to archive data periodically to either other network drive, usb or esata drive or to the network drive.. I store my OS "virgin" copy on the DVD and also on the net.. I can recover OS partition in 10 min or so...

[Tams]

easy auto scheduled back up
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