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| Thread ID: 119209 | 2011-07-11 02:01:00 | Backing up tracks | rob_on_guitar (4196) | PC World Chat |
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| 1215970 | 2011-07-11 02:01:00 | A few years ago I used to back up with just DVDs.... when I mainly used a PC for pictures and the odd vid. But now I have over a terabyte of music files from my recording sessions. I have an external HD I use as a back up but for some reason don't fully trust it for longevity. Is there any reason once a HD is loaded with so much info it would not work over time? The paranoia in me say just get a back up of the back up, but Ill end up using that probably for more recording. Or is there a better way to back up? Cheers |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1215971 | 2011-07-11 07:27:00 | maybe a raid box with a raid 1 or 5 array? There is a Synology box that has 2x1tb drives in mirror, cant remember the model but my mate tested one and loved the web interface. |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1215972 | 2011-07-11 08:10:00 | A few years ago I used to back up with just DVDs.... when I mainly used a PC for pictures and the odd vid. But now I have over a terabyte of music files from my recording sessions. I have an external HD I use as a back up but for some reason don't fully trust it for longevity. Is there any reason once a HD is loaded with so much info it would not work over time? The paranoia in me say just get a back up of the back up, but Ill end up using that probably for more recording. Or is there a better way to back up? Cheers Considering how important that body of work is to you, I'd consider uploading it all to the cloud; it'd take a while, but you can chip away at it over a few months if you have a bit of your internet cap left over. The more backups you have, the better! |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1215973 | 2011-07-11 10:13:00 | Online storage could be a go, although I only have 70 gigs to play with, between my flatty and me it could take awhile. Not sure how Raid works but will have a closer look. Thanks |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1215974 | 2011-07-11 10:48:00 | You can buy external hard drive cases that take 2 hard drives, and set them up as a RAID1, which basically means they are an exact copy, so if one disk fails you still have your data. This of course does not address the likes of fire. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1215975 | 2011-07-11 11:06:00 | I have been meaning to have a look at it but haven't had a chance yet but check out the free version of CrashPlan. www.crashplan.com You install it on your machine and get one of your friends or family to install it on their machine as well and then you can backup over the internet to each other's computers. You can do a one off backup to a USB drive and take it to the other person's machine so you don't have to backup the all of the data over the internet. Then the backups will only do changes or new files over the internet. Another option maybe... |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1215976 | 2011-07-11 12:08:00 | Thanks guys will look into it | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1215977 | 2011-07-11 12:21:00 | I'd always have two back ups minimum for anything important, but for music I even go for a third back up usually. Depends what you'd feel like if your drive crashed and you then found your back up was dead. And don't think that doesn't happen!!! Automated back ups are obviously best, amazing how long you can go thinking you did a recent back up, only to find out it was six months ago. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 1215978 | 2011-07-11 13:02:00 | Totally agree 12V, I have one external HD I use as a back up, but to be honest I just don't trust it to sit there and not keep it all the files like new. Maybe it's because I don't know too much about backing up, but I like the idea of a physical and online back up. Tomorrow I will read up more about raid the previously mentioned ideas. I think I just find it weird as I've had vinyl records for over 20 years yet I haven't had an HD longer than 5. |
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