# how do you backup your home computer?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-backup-your-home-computer/162499 "2003-03-19T07:45:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-backup-your-home-computer/162499/41 "2003-03-22T08:41:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ChrystinP \*  
> \*\*I’ve got a jungsoft nexdisk thumb drive that I back up everything to as I use a file and carry around with me so I can use my files on any computer with USB. The one I currently use is 128MB and I’m about to buy a new one 256 or bigger with the new security software (so no one can access my files except me.) I also back up to CDs on a weekly basis (2 cds) and I keep one in the trunk of my car and one in the garage shed area which is separate from the house. My PC and my laptop are backed up to each other via the thumb drive.  
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I bought one of those USB thumb drives, thinking it would be an easy alternative to carrying around cds, plus being able to write to them. I wasn’t sure whether to kick myself or go yell at the system admins when I learned the hard way that every computer on my college’s campus disallows adding any new hardware, including USB drives. The same problem came up when I tried viewing images on my digital camera.

Probably the same scenerio for public computers all over the world. Also true at my town’s public library (which doesn’t even let users save to the harddrive – it’s floppy drive or nothing, making it very very hard for me to do scans of books in the reference department that are over 1.2mb…and as mentioned in my previous reply, by the time I get home and download them to my computer, about 10% of them already have CRC errors)

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