Remember back when my house was hit by lightning. Twice. Yeah, that was me. Wiped out my entire hard drive. Anyway, I had been backing up my computer files with Cobian backup 8 which is a free open source product that is easy to use to schedule backup jobs. For example I had it set to back up the contents of my one external hard drive to to the other external hard drive weekly. I then used the external to save all my data files such as the family pictures.
Well... I finally got around to extracting the zip files from my backup and restoring all the data that had been wiped out in the disaster. I spend the afternoon restoring 14 4 GB chunks of data. (I had broken it up that way to be able to fit on DVDs, although it was on one external hard drive. It worked like a charm and was very easy to do, if a bit repetitive on my part.
Now I am going to re-organize and set up a new backup job so that the next time something like this should happen (knock on wood it doesn't) I will sure to have good fresh backups.
