What is your data backup plan?

[Jumpem]

Have a raid setup, copy data to an external hard drive, burn to DVD or blu-ray? A mix of these?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Plus, offsite storage.

 

[l0cke]

offsite

 

[dmw16]

offsite. something like carbonite.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Get webspace on the internet.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

external HDD.

 

[KLin]

1. Get a safe deposit box
2. Get multiple USB external drives
3. Rotate drives between deposit box on weekly or monthly basis with latest backup.
4. ...
5. PROFIT

 

[Jumpem]

When you say offsite, are you referring to something like a safe deposit box, or strictly online backup? What about privacy concerns with something like carbonite?

 

[Elganja]

if it's just pictures and videos you can use picasa

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: Jumpem
When you say offsite, are you referring to something like a safe deposit box, or strictly online backup?

Anything not in your house.

My plan revolves around doing nothing until reading the annual "oh God why didn't we have backups?!?" story, then panicking and backing up the most important stuff to DVD-Rs, a USB hard drive, and a USB key or two for the most important things. Running automatic backups once a day or so to another computer on the network is also not a bad idea, but isn't enough on its own.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: Elganja
if it's just pictures and videos you can use picasa

Only 100MB of space. I'm looking for 1TB.

 

[Colt45]

raid 5... and another (backup) box with raid 1.

 

[Brainonska511]

I have an external drive that I backup to when I add new photos to my computer or have had some changes to the files on my computer.

I also have DVDs at home, but they are kind of old (March 2008), and I've changed some stuff as of late - more photos, more work, much of my music (for what I had CDs for) is in flac instead of mp3....

 

[Elganja]

Originally posted by: Jumpem

Originally posted by: Elganja
if it's just pictures and videos you can use picasa

Only 100MB of space. I'm looking for 1TB.

well it's 1gb, but yeah I get your point. I ended up buying more space on google... not nearly as much as you need though.

the most you can buy from google is 400gb (https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage?hl=en), but that is 500 bucks a year... may not be what you are looking for.

You may want to look into services that use Amazon's S3 service. I know dropbox does but at this point I don't know if you can buy more space (2gb is the max now).

so in short, i offer no help... sorry

 

[mugs]

You don't need a safe deposit box for offsite storage. I just keep a copy at my wife's office.
I wouldn't trust burned DVDs for backups unless you make frequent full backups.

 

[xanis]

Ideally it would go something like this:

1) Network storage, two HDDs in RAID 1
2) Offsite storage
3) Hard copies on CD/DVD

 

[Descartes]

I have a terabyte of things that are critical to me. This includes photos, videos and a lot of data for my work. I have an "oh shit!" moment when I was traveling on business and was in between backups. I was out about a week of critical data that ultimately took me > $2000 to get back after failed recoveries.

This is what I do:

1) Schedule a backup to the SAN at my house. This SAN has a terabyte of storage space and is configured to use RAID 1 across two disks.
2) Backup that same backup to my primary laptop, so everything is synchronized from here.
3) Backup that backup to an independent drive that is then placed in my safe (it's a huge safe; no one could pick it up and it can withstand extreme temperatures).
4) Backup the very critical, absolutely-can't-lose data like my family photos to DVDs and store them at my friend's house.

The key is, for me anyway, to have an offsite backup of archive data, because you're not likely to be changing a lot of your photos from years ago. Then you need to have a synchronization of important disks, and for me that's my work.

I tried the online backups but just didn't like them.

 

[RU482]

keep breeding

 

[dartworth]

We back up to a second PC, external HDs, and Mozy

 

[irishScott]

1. External HD with triple encrypted backup partition.
2. Fileserver at my parents' house, also with a triple-encrypted backup partition.

I do weekly backups (to external HD and online at night via SSH)

 

[JMapleton]

Get them developed into paper photos?

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: dmw16
offsite. something like carbonite.

Do you use carbonite? It appears to be $50/yr for unlimited storage. Seems a bit low priced to me.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: JMapleton
Get them developed into paper photos?

For the photos, sure. What will be taking up space is 1080p video. It's just under 3 hours per 32GB.

 

[Q]

External HDD is the only thing I can think of that you can get for 1TB

 

[TridenT]

Uh, print them out? Duh. Oh and the movies? DVDs. Put them in cases that block all light and shut it in a box with the photos. Oh and preferably delete it all off your computer. AND then burn the box, because your baby is not going to care.