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| Thread ID: 100653 | 2009-06-15 10:38:00 | External Hard Drive Backups | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 782546 | 2009-06-15 10:38:00 | How many of you use one? And how do you use it? Just come across someone who thought they were doing all the right things by storing their stuff on it. Unfortunately their stuff was ONLY on the external drive - and naturally that's the drive that decided to have a problem. What you should do is have it both on the external AND the internal drives. Chances of both drives having a problem at once is unlikely. Also they were leaving it permanently connected. So what happens if there's a storm, lightning, power surge? Could lose both. I just plug mine in when I do a sync then unplug it again and let it sit connected to nothing. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 782547 | 2009-06-15 11:12:00 | I backup to 2 external hard drives. One I leave permanently connected and the other I store out of the house. All the files are also on the internal HD except for photos of which there are too many. | Shortstop (632) | ||
| 782548 | 2009-06-15 11:14:00 | Using an external HDD left on site is one form of backup - but it should not be the only form if you are serious about backing up! You need to have a copy of at least your important files off site for theft/fire type reasons. | johnd (85) | ||
| 782549 | 2009-06-15 11:37:00 | I have a Stardom NAS, configured as RAID 1 (2x500GB), and I backup to an external HDD once or twice a week. Most people I have come across use the external HDD for storage and confuse that as a backup. Often I have told people that backup means having 2 or more copies of their data on different drives, incase of drive failure as pctek mentioned. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 782550 | 2009-06-15 11:37:00 | I back up to an external drive most days, and rsync the important stuff to a server someplace every week or so. Code is inherently backed up in SCM systems anyway, so I don't usually worry about that. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 782551 | 2009-06-15 12:00:00 | Everything is stored on an internal AND external drive and some photos and documents are sent to be stored up in the cloud. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 782552 | 2009-06-15 19:44:00 | I use a flash drive daily an ext HDD weekly as well as a monthly full disc to ext HDD monthly, none are off site as where would I put them I don't work in an office | gary67 (56) | ||
| 782553 | 2009-06-15 20:45:00 | I have all my files on my server which has mirroring on the disks. Everything is backed up every 5 minutes using syncback to my terastation NAS which has RAID 5 running on it. I also have 2 offsite backups at different locations which are updated regularly. Really important stuff also has a home in the cloud and on DVD which lives in my work bag and travels around with me. Paranoid.....me???......maybe..... ;-) | Barnabas (4562) | ||
| 782554 | 2009-06-15 21:30:00 | Our SBS2003 box has RAID1 HDDs in it. I do a daily backup to a NAS device which also has a RAID1 setup. Plus I also do critical data backup online every night to a server in Auckland, which is replicated in Wellington every hour. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 782555 | 2009-06-15 21:32:00 | HDD, external disk and Gspace or Sky Drive. I'm wondering why the last two options, especially to safeguard the files from the risk of fire for example, haven't been mentioned more often. What are the disadvantages of those? | Cyberhuskey (13067) | ||
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