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TheChrisD » Blog » Random Shit – 4th March — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:30:03 +0000

[...] Phil would like to know how you backup your data. [...]

By: Tech Blog — John Keyes – Linkeyes — 13th March 2009

Tech Blog — John Keyes – Linkeyes — 13th March 2009 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:53:45 +0000

[...] asked ‘How do you backup?‘ and got some good answers. Version [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:30:05 +0000

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.

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:17:40 +0000

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.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:48:18 +0000

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

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:11:53 +0000

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

By: topmarkvader

topmarkvader — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:54:08 +0000

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.

By: Ronster

Ronster — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:29:50 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:46:07 +0000

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.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:43:39 +0000

drobo with 2x1tb and 2x500gb running raid 5 for main storage. Synced to maxtor 2x500gb raid1. ‘Important’ jobs backed (2x copies) to DVD.