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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
So how many backups do you have?
I am up to nine. ...
Now that I have listed all of this, it sounds kind of excessive.
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I believe the word is
obsessive.
I'm running rebit, a real time software program for around $30 for Windows, which backs up
everything and keeps multiple versions as space permits. It's attached to an external hard-drive (1 terabyte) that cost about $120. Mac users will recognise this strategy as Time Machine.
It's very effective, no muss no fuss, and relatively inexpensive. Then, about once a year, I buy a new external drive ($120) and start over, putting the old drive away safely (same house, different room).
I like the idea of cloud storage -- Microsoft offers 25GB free Skydrive -- and I may just do that for selected files -- like photos. My master genealogy file is the only thing I have a (recent) copy of that's actually offsite (at the office). I dunno; maybe I'll pop one of those archived hard drive's in my desk at the office, too.