What did you look like when you were young?

[marshmella]

Here's one of me when I was a little younger.
Moustaches and those sunnies will be back in fashion any day now!

you can be my wing man!

 

[Hacienda71]

That's it, competition closed

What?

 

[Speicher]

That's it, competition closed

Are you the really short one who can just about see over the person in front of them? Second from the left on the middle row, with the plump fizzog?

 

[Speicher]

Or the slightly taller one in the white shirt next to the very short one?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is potsy the one with bunches?

 

[coffeejo]

I'm trying to track down some old ones of me too, last seen at my mums house about 5 years ago
This is the only other one I have to hand, can you see me?

Pudding bowl hair cut, second from the left (is that the same one the Wol said?)

 

[ColinJ]

How does one do this? A separate HD?

I have nearly all my pics on web albums which is almost all I care about.

I suppose it depends how much data you are backing up. If it is only a few GB, then DVDs and/or online storage might be practical.

You could use USB flash stick drives but they can be a bit unreliable so never rely on just one. If you are going to use them, I'd suggest buying at least 2 and alternating them - use one on odd days of the month and one on even days. The chances of your HDD and both your backups failing at the same time are pretty slim.

I use an external USB2 hard drive and some free backup software which I found on the internet. I've had to do one restore after my Windows registry got so screwed up that my computer wouldn't boot. I also had to restore my brother-in-law's system when his PC had problems. He used an external USB2 hard drive too, but he used Norton Ghost backup/restore software.

I suggest that you get the backup software to verify the backups after making them - there's not much point in trying to restore a corrupted backup!

Ideally, you wouldn't keep your backup(s) in the same building as the computer in case your house/office burned down or you got burgled and all the equipment was nicked.

In 1996, during a fire at the headquarters of Crédit Lyonnais, a major bank in Paris, system administrators ran into the burning building to rescue backup tapes because they didn't have off-site copies. Crucial bank archives and computer data were lost.

!

If your data is sensitive and someone might be able to walk off with your backup, or it is online, make sure it is encrypted!

 

[swee'pea99]

You can get a helluvalot of foties on one o' these, and sandisk sticks are extremely reliable. All you have to do then is not lose it.

 

[Archie_tect]

Now you tell me...

 

[ttcycle]

Sandisk are brilliant- they're what I use,

my back ups involve everything off the computer hard drive/Sandisk CF card- onto external hard drive, backs ups onto DVDs/CDs- these get re-backed up after 3 years (DVDs have a shorter shelf life then CDs) and if I had an office space - I'd have another copy of DVDs there but I don't at the moment have that second back up- it's super important for my work to make sure I have it well covered.