it it just me of is backing up the damed boringest thin in the world, computer gose completly out of action while 100 GB+ of data gts backed up over upto 4 hours all in the effort of saving everything i think i need from my xp setup as im vista updating soon ( when its fin as it came 2day lol ) so im borrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddd

lol same here pete. i'm trying to backup about 150GB of data, and it seems if the speed goes over 5MB/s windows explorer on my dads pc crashes and locks me out of network drives

Anyway to answer your point, yes backups boring as hell.

I used to run a 200MB backup every night as a scheduled job and asked Windows to shut down when it had finished so I didn't waste energy. It worked quite well for me. Then again, it only takes a minute to copy 200MB. Still, at least I never forgot about it.

It was a backup of my Apache, MySQL, PHP, and hosted documents... back when I had dialup.

I probably should backup more ^^

When I get my new comp, I'm going to plug the new HDD in my current comp, partition it and copy my docs across there.

i only backup when i have to cause well 2 be honest i got so much stuff i back up lol (+ my backup drive corrupts more than my main drive so theres no point having long term backup drive lol but it works 4 a ri install or upgrade typ thing lol

EDIT + now its takong longer left the more its dun lol

I used to backup on to the same drive. Good eh.

u have several computers, surely it cant be that bad!

lol well i av this 1 im on the forum but all it cn do is msn and forum ( games at a push but al uber low graphics and gives me a headace lol ) but norm im always doin smin on both so i gt v bored with only 1 lol

tis boring, so i don't do it

i'll take the chance

lol its not realy a case of chance 4 me atm cuase i know it will all b lost unless i back it up as im installing over the hd lol

find something productive to do then lol.

i cnt think of nething im already prity much packed 4 uni everything is prepared tht can be , my room is tidy ( as always ) so cnt think of nout 2 do lol

lol win explorer is stupid it dnt know if i got 5 mins or like 7 days remaining lol ( with less than 5 % of the total volum its been trancfering left lol )

lol, find something else useful to do. like tell me when we're going to uni! what weekend we moving in?