[Sussex] moving data, backups etc - best/simplest/cheapest practice ?

[Dominic Humphries]

...unplug the hard drive from your old PC, plug it into the new one as a 
"slave" drive, boot it and have instant access to all your old files?

:)

On 18/06/2011 15:43, johnsemailaccount at gmail.com wrote:
> Wotcha List,
>
> My current PC is starting to fail i.e. if I have to power it down for 
> any reason, the restart is problematic - I have to keep repeatedly 
> tapping the case power switch, to get the start up to "catch" and boot 
> it into startup routine.
>
> A little digging and I've found little to explain whats going on, 
> other than there do seem to be others with similar/same PC and problems.
>
> I don't have the experience/expertise/kit/finances for fault finding 
> and as it could be anything from the case switch to some sort of other 
> hardware controller type issue, I've taken the easy route (again) and 
> got a new PC.
>
> This generates a few issues.
>
> Any bookmarks etc in my browser have been stored remotely using Xmarks 
> extension in firefox. My address book stuff is located with my google 
> account. So that leaves a smallish number of documents etc and of 
> course, my music.
>
> Now rather stupidly (though with the best of intentions i.e. quality 
> etc), all my music is in FLAC format, so it's taking up about 30 or so 
> gig's, so I'm now busy burning it all to DVDRW, so once I've got 
> backups of everything made I can then start setting up the new PC with 
> partitions, Ubuntu, user accounts etc etc.
>
> Can anyone explain the best (also cheapest and simplest) way of having 
> such data so that I don't need to have to make backups like this, as 
> it's not ideal and of course, for longer term data retention, have it 
> in a form that means if the PC dies on me I don't lose it all ?
>
> Of course, I know of things like external hard drives and such 
> devices, but don't have access to them (or the finance to buy one at 
> the moment). Plus while I've looked at cloud storage in a basic way, 
> it seems that for this amount of data, it would probably be too 
> expensive....
>
> Hence, any guidance and/or ideas as to how I should be sorting this 
> out in future (gonna have to be DVDRW's for the moment), I'd be more 
> than happy to learn about it.
>
> regards
>
> John D
>
> p.s. Oh and don't forget, I still like to claim my position as "SLUG 
> nugget", as I'm no kind of techie, just an enthusiast user of Linux 
> systems......
>
>
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