[videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-07 Thread Steve Watkins
Get an Uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Lacie probably arent much more unreliable than any other, everybody has a make or two that have failed on them and make them hate that brand. If Mac users have had lots of Lacie failures its probably only because they have bought lots of Lacie

[videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Paul joshp...@... wrote: ... I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both failed on the same day...with Seagate drives no less). Josh, can you share what happened? Or how? I have been considering the Drobo as a backup. What

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Backing up your media

2009-02-01 Thread Michael Verdi
I do multiple backups - I have a mirrored raid for video stuff + a time machine backup of that and my system. I've also been using dropbox as a web based backup for all my files that aren't music and video. I also have a couple of stacks of DVDs of even older stuff. I've lost hundreds of GB of