A: In the investment world there is only one word for safety: diversification.
I concur. I have never backed up anything, and surprisingly I have lost little, this is due to luck. For the first time I am setting up a very redundant backup system on my network. Little of this little of that, all data is kept on a mirrored RAID, if 50% of the hard drives die I am still OK. Nitely, personal data will be copied over to another RAID on a different server. Weekly anything that was changed that week will be burned to CD-Rs for archiving.
Because media does go bad and hardware does change backup solutions need to also. While far, far more extensive than most people will ever want to do, this setup will allow hard drives to fail without any loss to my personal data. Over time I will end up moving to newer, larger drives both as a drive here or there fails, and as my data pool gets bigger. Eventually I will also have to move away from a CD-R media for backup due to space limitations. Transition is the key to backup, whatever you do, make sure you can move it to something else later.
David
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