Quote Originally Posted by myfreakinears View Post
Being in the computer industry I know exactly how all you feel. One thing I learned early is have a back up plan. If I asked a few of you what type of back up plan you have and you had to stop to think about it, then you are in for a world of hurt sooner than later. They can be as simple as an external hard drive or as complicated as an online backup utility with a redundant network server. Personally I have 2 external hard drives in rotation that I have copies of anything personal (photos, videos, music, and documents). Everything else can be replaced. Start researching now before it's way too late.
At work I have the fileserver which hosts daily backups of every important server.
It has a RAID5 disk configuration, and we backup the fileserver weekly to LTO3 tapes.

At home all important data is on my workstation with hardware RAID1 disk config, and backed up regularly to external USB disks. 1 of those disks is always off-site.

What I really want is an LTO drive for in my workstation.
But for the money they cost, it is just not going to happen any time soon.

Still, my solution is better than what 99% of the computer users do, which is usually nothing.
I know several people who lost months of important family data in a disk crash. none of them had backups.