beavercreek
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I used to have my own Apple Mac business installing and supporting networks in schools and business as well as to the private individual.
I also supported a great many schools' Windows networks and was also an ICT consultant/teacher so my experience of the need to backup and getting folks to do it was pretty wide.
I would always recommend that there was a hard drive(s) dedicated to just backing up at the end each day or even down to every 15 minutes for some clients.
And practically all of the companies/institutions would ask me to install them... but the private individuals would usually want to save the money....
As far as personal use was concerned, I would back up each day BUT I was hoisted by my own petard last year.....
My 5 year old media hard drive (which was too full) had been hammered quite hard during the lockdowns and I had not bothered to back it up for a long time (I blamed it on Flu for nurturing bad habits!).
The drive had hundreds and hundreds of movies, many TV series, tens of thousands of music tracks, all gleaned and backed up from streaming or from my DVDs, Blurays, CD's and even old vinyl.
Of course, Murphy's Law stepped in and it developed a fault and it gradually began to die....... It would not be recognised by any of the computers in the house and even the best disk repair utilities could only resurrect some of the data.
I have learned the lesson that I used to religiously tell others..... always back up, even when you are lazy and also perhaps have a back-up of the back up if the data is extremely important!
I now only use SSD drives (and yes they do not last forever either so take care)..
Backing up and even just loading/saving is swift and soundless ...as well as saving a whole lot of energy!..... but laying out the cash for the back-up SSD drives was painful ......
I also supported a great many schools' Windows networks and was also an ICT consultant/teacher so my experience of the need to backup and getting folks to do it was pretty wide.
I would always recommend that there was a hard drive(s) dedicated to just backing up at the end each day or even down to every 15 minutes for some clients.
And practically all of the companies/institutions would ask me to install them... but the private individuals would usually want to save the money....
As far as personal use was concerned, I would back up each day BUT I was hoisted by my own petard last year.....
My 5 year old media hard drive (which was too full) had been hammered quite hard during the lockdowns and I had not bothered to back it up for a long time (I blamed it on Flu for nurturing bad habits!).
The drive had hundreds and hundreds of movies, many TV series, tens of thousands of music tracks, all gleaned and backed up from streaming or from my DVDs, Blurays, CD's and even old vinyl.
Of course, Murphy's Law stepped in and it developed a fault and it gradually began to die....... It would not be recognised by any of the computers in the house and even the best disk repair utilities could only resurrect some of the data.
I have learned the lesson that I used to religiously tell others..... always back up, even when you are lazy and also perhaps have a back-up of the back up if the data is extremely important!
I now only use SSD drives (and yes they do not last forever either so take care)..
Backing up and even just loading/saving is swift and soundless ...as well as saving a whole lot of energy!..... but laying out the cash for the back-up SSD drives was painful ......
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