On 04/27/2010 04:02 PM, John D. Mort wrote:
What backup strategies are you using right now?
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I understand that my exposure right now is the destruction of my home, that's a threshold I'm comfortable with.
Well, I've already dealt with that scenario. Granted, my hardware wasn't in a part of the house that was gutted, but I did observe one important point; never keep your backups in the same room as the backed-up system. And one of the first things I did when I went to the house later in the day was to pull my hard drives from my system so tha I could copy off the data (written to a couple sets of DVDs).
One thing I did when backing up my recovered files to DVD was I bought 2 different brands of disk, and made sure they had a different appearance (one with a silver tint, one with a gold tint). That would at least avoid a disasterous problem with a bad batch of disks. I had saved my files to a borrowed USB drive, and pre-split the files into DVD-sized directories.
these days I have a batch script that rsyncs my documents, photos, email & such to 2 external drives, one which stays at work, and one I keep with me. That's for my regular files. Anything longer-term I have on an old scrap laptop HD, an occasionally write things to DVD.
As for backing up music; the great majority of my music is on vinyl, so the electronic versions themselves would be considered my backups.
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