Personally, I'd go for both: keep regular backups on the hard drive, and duplicate backups of the most important stuff on CD or DVD. Also, try to separate the backups as much as possible; you could consider mailing CDs containing vital data to your home address at regular intervals, or keeping a set in every part of your luggage, etc.
Cheers, Ben
On 26 Feb 2005, at 22:41, Peter Saint James wrote:
I'm assessing back-up strategies to use while doing some extended traveling. It seems that a portable external hard drive might be better than trying to carry a stack of DVDs. Or is there a better solution?
One issue I'm weighing is stability. I can picture being momentarily careless and getting the hard drive too close to a magnet or something. Is this really an issue?
TIA
Peter
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