Backing up images etc on PC

[landyman Ash]

I need advice

I need tro back up my PC emails settings etc BUT most importantly, my images which are around 40G

Is a direct copy to a hard drive best, windows back up?  DVDs???

So how do you guys back up PCs??

I have DVD burner, 80G external HD etc

Advice greatfully taken  :?  :D

[Xtremeteam]

I need advice

I need tro back up my PC emails settings etc BUT most importantly, my images which are around 40G

Is a direct copy to a hard drive best, windows back up?  DVDs???

So how do you guys back up PCs??

I have DVD burner, 80G external HD etc

Advice greatfully taken  :?  :D

are you doing this so you have space for the pics when you come up here for the wknd??    :lol:

[hingmy]

Speaking profesionally, i back up to dvd (2 copies of each). While an external HD is great for stuff you still want to work with, it is still a hard drive which can fail.

[Damonski]

Just like a DVD can get dropped and smashed into a million peices when you flip it out of the case  

I usually backup to another HDD, but also a DVD/CDR depending on the Qty of data. 40Gb+ you really need to consider a HDD to copy to and from.

Quite silly really we now have hard drives reaching 300Gb+ for around 100 notes, yet nothing really to back up that quantity of data effeciently.

[BrumLee]

Just like a DVD can get dropped and smashed into a million peices when you flip it out of the case  

I downloaded and watched the Christmas edition of Myth Busters yesterday and one myth was that CD's have shattered inside a drive whilst spinning up. I've tried to snap these and it takes some bending before they go, so I though who they kiddin'.

They clamped a disc in an angle grinder and at 3000 rpm they disintigrate  :shock:  :shock: well I never. Beware of the spinning CDR