   are there any good online backup services?
  Well Hardrive 3 in 2 years has just gone kaplooy, screwed up my dual boot and forced me to reformat my remaining drive. Realized I just erased everything, freaked out for an hour. Now I'm curious is there any good, preferably free, sites that can be used to backup project files? Would a service like source forge or google code work... though I feel bad about it if I'm just using it to backup projects. Or should i just resort to using CD/DVDs, hard drives have seemed to be a horrible solution for me.   
Quote:Now I'm curious is there any good, preferably free, sites that can be used to backup project files?Yes, there are. All you have to do is Google for "online backup" or "online backup service" and further phrases like that. You'll find the various services and blogs and discussions on what people do. Plenty of information out there.Quote:Would a service like source forge or google code workThey are not backup services. They are open source project hosting solutions. You are not hosting an open source project. You are backing up personal files.Quote:Or should i just resort to using CD/DVDsDVD media is flaky. You can do some research, if you don't already know this from experience. Even with good burners and good media, you shouldn't trust important data for long term storage to just DVD media.Quote:hard drives have seemed to be a horrible solution for meHard drives fail. This is a lesson everyone learns at some point. Of course there are bad hard drives and defects out there, so you may have gotten unlucky, as 3 harddrives in 2 years is pretty bad. (On that note, HDDs not have warranties for up to five years, so if you have drives just failing in a year...)   ;  You may want to consider using RAID-1 or 5 for a HDD setup.   ;  I like iDrive Online the best. I've been using it for a while now and it's worked out very well. They maintain up to thirty revisions of every file without counting it against your storage space, and that even includes deleted files. (You can purge them if you really want.) 2GB free, 12GB if you go through their spam-everyone option, 150GB for Personal non-free.   ;Quote:Original post by oler1sHard drives fail. This is a lesson everyone learns at some point. Of course there are bad hard drives and defects out there, so you may have gotten unlucky, as 3 harddrives in 2 years is pretty bad. (On that note, HDDs not have warranties for up to five years, so if you have drives just failing in a year...)no, they were all old drives, atleast 3 years old, one might have even been close to 10 ;P, the sad thing is I have everything backed up on the drive I'm using now, and my main drives was the now dead one. I recently bought windows seven and installed it to this one, but I didn't realize that the boot sector was on the dead drive and for some reason windows refuse to do the start up repair, and since I only had 4 gigs left on the drive I had no room to install another copy so I had to reinstal.I know about the life span of DVD's, but I figured if I wen that way I'd be backing things up once a month, so I'm sure I would be able to recover from any moth two years in the past. I was also thinking about an external drive just for backing up my projects, but they cost for a hobbiest doesn't sit well for me, and I'm not sure about they're reliability?Promit I'll try that website out.And as for RAID, I haven't bother with it yet, I'f a get two or more 1-2+TB drives I might think about it, but a year ago I had 3 640gig drives full so RAID would be a waste of space compared to the safety of my files.;  CD/DVD is still, to me, the best choice. Try to get the best writers. If unsure, have two and do your back-up twice, one with each. Check them after you write them and hopefully that would be the last time you read them in a long time.Store them in your basement panic room's frezzer. They should survive *any* HD device you may find out there.   