Backupexec – Automated, runs per night on 3 servers, about 10tb a day across a few ultrium tapes that can store 600gb each!

at home.. i just dont.. all those photos, just waiting to dissapear… probably a bad idea.

I use time machine with a portable 250GB drive,

But I back up all my photography manually as well,

a 400GB desktop drive
a 160GB portable drive,

plus the 3 hard drives in my PC, can’t remember what size they are though…

I got a 1TB drive and started using Time Machine. Its pretty handy, On this same drive i keep raw back ups of video/music etc.

On my 160gb macbook pro drive, i only have 18 gigs free at mo…and am struggling to find more stuff to dump…think a fresh wipe in the summer is needed…

I use putplace.com, but then again I would as the founder!

We think PutPlace.com is a good solution in that it offers realtime backup for all your important stuff with support for versioning and multiple PC’s baked into the pricing. Using the promo code “joe” to get three months free.

http://putplace.com

Generally I run WD Sync to backup my stuff onto my external hard drive. Or in the case of a few pictures and things, upload them to my web server.

…and if your house burns down or a burglar breaks in and steals the computer bits and pieces? Backup needs to be offsite or it’s still at risk. You could use http://putplace.com for instance.

I rely on MobileMe for contacts and calendars (which does feel a little like dicing with death), all my email is through IMAP and important stuff is on a Time Machine drive. Web sites are kept in sync with the live version. Music and video I don’t bother with beyond my music being on my iPod.

Time Machine to 1TB external hard drive.

Back up iMac, 500GB external hard drive, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air.

iMac & 500GB external are automatic, hourly. The notebooks are when we remember, which isn’t often enough. Need to sort that out and get 1TB onto the Airport Extreme with everything automatically backing up to it as long as it’s in the house.

Also now considering backing up the 1TB – where do you stop?

As of next week, my backup system will be a weekly updated archive of work on a 260Gb LaCie d2 with a 1Tb LaCie Quadra beside it running Time Machine for disaster recovery of the d2 and my MBP.

I also make irregular DVD backups of the archive and store them at my folks’ house (100 miles away) in case the office burns down with all my hardware in it.

I make daily backups to a 250GB HD on my desk, weekly to a 300GB HD ‘hidden’ in my room and then monthlies to a 600GB situated in a top secret location.

Silly I know, but if the house gets robbed then I don’t lose everything.

I don’t have a “strategy” as such, it’s all a bit ad-hoc.

I’d like to have a strategy but I’ve yet to come up with one that I can stick to. Something automatic: a remote file system like Dropbox but with more capacity would suit.

For now:
- projects -> source control server
- photos -> some to Picasa
- music -> iPod

I have a lot of documents and non-source-controlled projects and data that need backed up.

I have a Western Digital 500GB hard drive that I plug in once a week (usually a Sunday) and Time Machine does the rest. It actually stays in my parent’s house (or my ‘home home’) that I usually visit once a week.

Would love a Wireless drive though and should really think about remote backups as well.

drobo with 2×1tb and 2×500gb running raid 5 for main storage. Synced to maxtor 2×500gb raid1. ‘Important’ jobs backed (2x copies) to DVD.

Day job stuff is backed up to the office file server, which is regularly cloned – but that’s the stuff I’m less concerned about :)

Otherwise:
- the not-day job stuff is mirrored to Dropbox (not exactly backup, but the versioning has come in handy more than once) and independently copied to my own S3 store. Yes, that means two copies on S3, but only one of them’s actually for backup.
- infrequent but regular full-system clones to the first external HDD using SuperDuper! and two different partials to two other externals (one is music, movies and photos, the other is not-day job stuff). The full clone is kept off-site and the two partials are in the house but not with the computer gear.
- a USB key with a further copy of all the really vital crapCrapCRAPicantloseit stuff.

Also considering a Time Capsule for set-it-and-forget upstairs.

I don’t use Time Machine.

I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do a nightly backup of my 1TB iTunes drive to another iTB drive, and to do the same for my iMac’s internal drive.

I have anything really important on my iDisk (band stuff mainly, plus some personal documents), and that is cloned in a few different places.

Laptop backed up to Windows Home Server, which would be daily if it was switched on all the time, like days gone by, but due to using my netbook much more regularly I dont use laptop as much any more. Use dropbox for regularly used files but reaching 2gb free limit has meant ive havent been using it as productively as i could. google docs for many docs, eee web storage for syncing info on netbook. few western digital hard drives backing up music and media collection also on server.

im getting a 1tb wireless hd but i currently back up to dvd (when i get a chance) and i have 2 16gb pen-drives for transport mainly

I simply push my data to my Wuala drive. http://wuala.com

Did you read my post on that subject? http://inphotos.org/how-i-backup-my-photos/

I use backuppc, 2 external 1TB drives and rsync to do daily backups of my photos and websites. Already saved my photos when one of my older drives died late last year.

Thanks to everyone for your comments! Seriously given me loads to think about.

The problem being that I have many many photographs, over 150gb or so, a figure increasing rapidly, and so much other stuff also, that online backup don’t lend themselves too well as a solution.

I need space. A lot of space, not *just* security. And hard drives are cheap, and easy enough to manage, it’s just about figuring out the best way to manage them.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your own methods with me. Makes me feel better that I’m also not the only one without a solution/strategy.