Back your stuff up?

wellfleation · 10-30-2009, 07:08 PM

Just wondering people's back-up patterns or if people even bother (which is stupid if you value your stuff even a little).

I used to have three external hard drives as all I'm concerned with backing up are my Music /Photo/Movie files, primarily. The three drives I swapped this info to included a 250, 320 (USB 2) and 160 GB (Firewire) drives (everything is offloaded from my primary machine, a MBP - drives daisy-chained via one of two four port USB 2 hubs connected to AEBS [pure N network]). My 250 Lacie went (2nd one to fail me prematurely) I just received a 1TB (USB 2). Since this drive is so big I think I will use it for Time Machine and the stuff I already mentioned. Everything else is recoverable via disks (A.K.A., software).

Shit, if I lost my iPhoto files, that would be most of my kids photographic history gone. I'm not taking that chance. I think I'm finally set up for a while.

How do you ensure you are "safe"?

Štulic · 11-05-2009, 03:39 AM

Mirrored HDD 320Gb with all the important stuff and an external firewire 1Tb drive for normal storage.

©antSEEme · 11-05-2009, 03:49 AM

got several flash drives

got a bunch of hard drives i saved from old computers and turned into external storage drives

dvd-r's

my computer hd is pretty much kept empty. everything i want to save i save immediately.

verklingen · 11-05-2009, 08:30 AM

i've put off buying an external hd way too long. my router has a usb connect for hd which is p sweet

Kompressor · 11-05-2009, 09:22 AM

Two external HDD's, a few flash drives, and an image of my operating hard drive in case shit hits the fan. The new Windows 7 Backup Utility is quite handy now.

I'm like Cantseeme in that my operating HD only has programs, all my files are stored either on my ext. hard drive or 'in the cloud' of the internet and ftp servers.

wellfleation · 11-06-2009, 07:31 PM

I here RAID drives work well and are worth the money but I'm unfamiliar with them. My system is pretty bullet proof as it stands, pending a house fire.

A another more secure storage option is paying for off line solutions (e.g., cloud networking). i say secure because if you were to have a fire all your important stuff would still be there on that server. Monthly/yearly see involved though.