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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I bought this one less than a month ago when my old external HD became filled to capacity, and so far it's working like a charm. Plug and play simplicity. |
That looks good, but way more than I need?
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
DG, here's my two cents worth (for what it matters).
How do the Big Boys do it?
Multilevel and off-site Back ups. The bank I first programmed for shipped a copy all their files off-site every night. And weekly backups. And quarterly backups. and Yearly backups...
So you need at least two external drives. One at the house, one somewhere else (safety deposit box?) Before you laugh at that, think how much you've spent on data. And that's not even including the priceless stuff (priceless because you can't recreate it at any cost.)
Rotate the off-site and on-site every three months. Sync 'em up with your current data and put one back off-site.
And let's face it, we individuals who are not programmers will load 99% of our data as static files, never changing. Pictures, music files, e-books, they don't change. So every three months is good enough. Keep a USB drive handy for anything you get that you can't risk losing and keep it handy with the computer. Clean it out after every three month swap.
If you do that, hard drive crashes will become just a nuisance....
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As usual, excellent advice. I had heard this "switch out and keep in safe deposit box" theory before somewhere......and at the time thought it was overkill. Not so much anymore.
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Originally Posted by Rootman
Being an IT guy I baxkup EVERYTHING multiple times. I was shocked when I actually stopped and figured out how many copies of everything I DO keep.
- Laptop at work
- Desktop at work
- 32GB Thumb drive (just for documents and downloads)
- 500GB Passport USB drive
- Home laptop
- Home server
- 4 count 'em 4 backups to a 1TB USB drive at home
That makes 10 copies! I've just gotten burnt to many times by hardware or human error. So I just kept adding more and more copies.
Haven't lost anything in years. |
thats a lot of backing up. We have a desktop, my laptop, and the netbook. When I got the netbook, was going to load my Calibre Library to it, but chose to just load a few books. Now I'm thinking of loading Calibre to both the netbook and desktop.
(Lightbulb goes on......)........