What is your data backup plan?

[Brovane]

I used multiple copies for storage.

For backup I use Picasa for pictures. I purchase 10GB of storage space from Google on a yearly basis for $20/year. I also have all my pictures on a RAID 1 on my home computer. At the end of a year I burn all documents, pictures and movies to DVDs for the year. I then keep these DVD's at work. After all the pictures for a year are burned to DVD I will remove them from Picassa. Picassa is just a easy way for me to backup pictures without to much effort during the year. Soon I will be making a archive set of DVD's for 2008 that I will then store at work.

I also have one of these safes at home - http://www.libertysafe.com/safe_colonial.php In the safe I have a 500GB External Hard Drive that I store at the bottom of the safe. The safe is rated for a 1200 degree fire for 45minutes so hopefully it should stay safe. Also the safe hopefully should deter a casual burglar.

The key is keeping is simple so you regularly do a backup.

 

[KK]

I use viceversa to push the files over to another drive in my pc and also to another pc in the house.

 

[SpanishFry]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
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.

do you have kids?

He's a 18 year old virgin still living at home.

Thisis all you need to know.

thank you.

every post i read by this miserable piece of shit is some demeaning tripe.

 

[sonambulo]

I don't have any baby pictures but I do back up my critical files. RAID + biweekly external hdd in fireproof box + monthly external hdd backup in deposit box and then I do redundant burns of crit files to blu ray and keep a copy in my deposit box. If all of these fail on me then fuck it I deserved to lose my data.

 

[Tobolo]

i have 2nd hd, networked backup, and an external hd kept at my office

 

[txrandom]

Backup hard drive and then a network drive on my parent's network. Only non private stuff like music, videos, and photos.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Yeah, you're a fucking idiot.

You need to go outside and play or get off your meds. You're getting way too upset over absolutely nothing.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Save them on a DVD (two copies), one goes offsite (parents or relatives) the other stays with you in a place other than where the computer is.

 

[Eli]

 

[Codewiz]

I use iphoto for all my photos. I have a plugin for smugmug. I upload all my photos to smugmug as the pictures are put on my computer. I have unlimited storage so there are no worries and I can keep the original sized photos.

 

[kevnich2]

Give carbonite a look at. I tried mozy but had major problems with it so I switched to carbonite. Very low cost per year and it's unlimited space and it's truly automated. You just tell it what to backup and it'll take care of it after that automatically for you. Right now my backup set is around 30gb or so. This is in addition to my usb backup that I use every night. I'm a backup fanatic - seen way too many hard drives go bad and people not having proper backup.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

I'm doing backup to external drive. Drive will be taken off site. To a relatives home who also does backups and we will swap our disk images once a month.

 

[skyking]

I burn a couple of CDs each time I get that much into the photos folder. One get stored onsite, the other at another place.
If you want something automated, build two server boxes, one for you and one for a friend/family member. I suggest using debian or ubuntu.
Install samba, and then install dirvish.
dirvish
Get all your crap on your box in a samba share, and get all his crap in his box.
put the two together on a LAN, and set up the dirvish vaults, exchange keys, set up the cron jobs. Initialize the two vaults. All those gigs of data will take some time. Have some beers.
Now each has a complete backup of the other.
Change the settings in master.conf so that the backups will work over the WAN.
Take the servers back home, and each of you enjoy automated incremental offsite backup. Only the changed data is moved.
I use it for my clients.