Backing up work

[Scarlett]

My C drive on my PC is getting perilously full. I have just bought an external hard drive (Seagate 500GB) and have transferred my documents onto it. The thing is, I am reluctant to delete stuff off my C drive, just in case my external drive fails! Other than keep buying more hard drives, is there a solution to this?! What would you do?

[boxtops]

What are you using it for, Scarlett? downloads and videos take up a lot of space. can you delete anything?

[Postdog]

How common is any drive failure though? I've had a couple for years and no problems yet.

The only suggestion I can make is that you also back up good quality DVDs

[VHG]

You are right to be concerned, having any backup in only one place is risky. An external hard drive can be dropped or stolen or stop working so dont have just one backup there.

I backup to 2 external hard drives AND a NAS drive. I also put important things like digital pictures on DVD.

There are a number of places you can make more backups:

On CD/DVD

On a memory stick (short term)

On a web based storage area (there are a number around, like Skydrive from Microsoft which is free)

On another computer.

You can use any or all of these.

[Scarlett]

Thanks- good advice. Think I'll copy my pictures and music to some discs to be on the safe side!

[joko]

you can store stuff online now....some sites allow a certain amount free, others a fee...

google for online storage options

[Philtaz]

I've always been a bit paranoid about losing all my converted cd's/videos/pics so I back up on TWO separate external drives!