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As anyone of you who have read my posts in the past may well ascribe, I can be a bit of a nut at times. Backing up my data is one such time.
First, my hard disks are arranged so that the system files and program files are on the logical and physical C: drive. All user data is located on other physical hard disks. In the event of a system or system crash all I need do is to remove the user drives and install them on another system. (Yeah, you read right, I said drives, plural.)
Business data has its own mirrored RAID drives. Photography has its drive and ebooks have their own drive too. (On other machines are the music server and video editor/server.) Business data is incrementally backed up once a day to other machines and a full backup once a week to DVD. At regular intervals these DVDs are moved into fireproof secure off-site storage. Full DVD backups are also done at regular intervals for the other data groups in addition to the incremental backups.
Does it work? Yes. Is it a pain? Not really. After years in IT these are just common practices that become a habit. I also have a junk collection in basement storage consisting of a 5-1/4” floppy drive, a 3-1/2” floppy drive, and a Zip-100 drive. Since I have not seen a 5-1/4” disk around here for over five years I think I will toss it the next time I see the drive.
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