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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
External HDDs are cheap enough that I keep (occasionally) buying another. I've now got 4 (5? I forget) in rotation for my backups.
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Heh. I have two 1 TB HDD's as backups for my desktop hard drives.
I also have one 2 TB HDD as backup for my laptop hard drive. Both of those are split into two 1TB partitions to mimic the desktop setup.
I use the laptop's backup drive to keep my desktop (and through it, its backups) and my offline backup in sync.
This, in the end, I have 5 backups of my data: laptop (+backup), desktop (+backup), offsite.
The most important backup is the offsite one, however. If my house would burn down, I'd lose four backups at once. Maybe I should create another offsite one...
(Besides all of this, I also have an old 250GB, 160GB, and 80GB external hard disks I bought in the past. I now use them to move large data, such as disk images, as 128GB+ USB-sticks are still quite expensive to just have a few lying around.)