Backing up ? Dont forget your fonts.

[viccar]

If like me you use bought, made or downloaded unusual or not run of the mill fonts, and swashes don't forget to back these up as well as your other data. I found out the hard way when my pc died the other week, I have spent ages tacking down fonts. So back them up, go on do it now

[Justin]

I'll move this into hints & tips, great advice

[GoonerGary]

Good tip, but not reinstalling all of them is good way of cleaning up the fonts you didn't need in the first place. I wait until photoshop tells me that I have a font missing when the file is opened up.

[Russ]

Any font I have that is not 'run of the mill' is in my dropbox folder - so pretty safe

[AlanD]

Any font I have that is not 'run of the mill' is in my dropbox folder - so pretty safe

I tend to make a 'drive image' very easy to do with Win 7 and not so bad with 8.1 once you find the command. It makes a clone of your system and has been a godsend to me in the past. Clones everything so a complete drive failure is not a disaster and everything goes back exactly the way it was.
I also run a RAID setup so one drive is mirrored to another, I've had 6 or 7 drives go down in the last 4 years but at least I could carry on without too many tears. A good backup routine is very important and often overlooked