How long since you backed up your hard drive?

[longen]

I backed up all my data this morning, so just a reminder that you may need to do the same.
A disk crash today could mean you business is on hold for a week while you sort things out.

[MatthewHSE]

We have Norton Ghost backup our data every night to an external hard drive. In case of system failure we never lose more than one day of work, and in case of a fire or other disaster, we can grab our entire business in the amount of time it takes to unplug the hard drive. This isn't as good as an offsite backup system, but in my mind it's the next best thing.

[limbo]

EVERY DAY! Without fail - I have been through 1 disaster - never again.

All Sites + Artwork on disc x 2 and server copies to tape over night. I also copy my own stuff to and from MAC & PC.

[trillianjedi]

Automated - webservers are backed up once every three hours, home PC's every morning at 4am.

[graywolf]

If you run a development server at your home or office remeber having backups does not mean you have a backup development server. It will take you a day or two to rebuild the server from the backup data.

Now I take the files, and data from the live server and move it to the fully configured backup server once a day.

[lZakl]

We back up every night... We use Retrospect to back-up the individual PC’s to the “main” server, and then all servers back up to an external drive nightly. Then every week (Thursday night) we back that external up to another external that we keep off site. So at most, if the placed burned to the ground, we’d lose 6 days of work. But in our line of business, one week of data loss would devastate us if it hit on the right day.

-- Zak