[Neil Enns]

Photos of my dog!

[Neil Enns]

Photos of my dog!

[BugDude10]

Since I back up my work data at work, the most important stuff for me to back up at home would be my photos and my videos & video projects. (I try to back everything up on discs, but it still just feels safer to have everything on a hard drive. Like, I don't know, a brand new Seagate FreeAgent drive!)

[Joel Crane]

All my music, movies and photos! I'd be devastated if I lost my hand organized mp3 collection.

I've never lost anything, I've had lots of hard drives fail but they always turn out to be my "experimental linux drive" or something like that.

[z2z]

What do you have on your notebook or desktop computer that you'd be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data - what happened?

I can't bear to lose all my documents and photos from over the years. I have lost an old harddrive before and I lost all my old data from that time. Now I try to make a backup once in a while using cds.

[marvi1]

Photos and (wait for it) Income Tax data. And yes, I lost my tax data one year before I had a chance to print a copy for my files (but AFTER I had filed). Hope I never get audited!

[cfaslave]

Have you ever lost important data on your computer? Yep several times. Each time I said “I’ll never do that again.” And then do that again.

What happened and how do you backup your data now? I now do a monthly auto-backup using Acronis Tru-Image program but only for the essentials. I do an image of my OS drive always as well as a few of my very important ones. Others I just live on the edge

[Merlin_AZ]

Probably the most important irreplaceable items would be pictures.

[leslietroyer]

I use WHS for backup - seems to work just fine, I've tested it and am happy with the speed and ease of restores.

I would be most "hurt" if I lost my music library.

The biggest impact for me loosing data - was the loss of my issis boot disk -- now where oh where did I put that 8" floppy???

LEs

[ryanmorris]

Order of importance, least to most: 4) personal files, budgets, lists; 3) 7,000 audio files (*legally* ripped from hundreds of CDs); 2) address lists of family & friends; 1) thousands of family photos

[copperdog]

I've lost work files before, because of drive crashes. And, while that has caused me to lose hours & days, recreating that work, that would be nothing compared to the thought of losing the thousands of personal photos, and the videos of me with my wife and 2 year old daughter.

Because I have a rare genetic disorder, there is a very real possibility that there is a limited time my daughter & I have together. I would be devastated if she did not have those memories, as she grows older, due to a technical difficulty, or lack of foresight.