How do you store valuable data
 

Well according to click not on CD/DVD, as these only last 1 -10 years, and named brands doesn't mean anything.

Some discs only lasted a year.:shocked:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ne/8711747.stm

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on disc on disk and remote

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Duplicated onto two different brands of hard drive and in the cloud.

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Encrypted on 2 hard drives and a usb key that I keep in a fireproof box with other important paper documents.

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USB key, USB removable drive (kept in another house), and in the cloud.

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PC hard drive backed up to Network Storage set to back up files as they are loaded or changed

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PC hard drive is synced weekly to a 1TB NAS with mirrored drives.

Protects against HDD failure, but not fire, theft. Must get around to some ofline storage but I have 76GB of personal photos and that's not including and documents and these grow weekly.

Any decent services that will give me 200GB of storage online? Problem is uploading that amount on a 2Mb ADSL!

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Google offer upload space, we use picasa for all our photos. Will need to get round to uploading all the full size images at some point lol

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Just checked Picasa:

1GB ?? Pffft!!! Where do I put the rest of my photos?

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I use a 2 8gb pen drive's aswell as a 1tb hdd and a mobile phone with a memory card in it that get's removed, and only put back in when needed aswell as dvd's.

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My pc includes both an external 'bay' which takes a (proprietary) external SATA hard disk & also a standard ESATA connector - backups include a full image of the internal hard disk (including recovery partition) on a 500GB disk & also pictures & media files, downloads, etc on 3 other disks, one is 750GB & the others 1TB.

It is possible to connect external disks to both the 'bay' , which includes a power supply, as well as the external connector, which needs a separate power supply, & 'synch' them either to each other or the internal drive.

The 'problem' with any backup regime is that you never know if it will work unless you test it - and if you test it & it goes tup then you need to be sure you have, at least, a factory restore option??

Which is why apps like Gmail which can store info in 'the cloud' are also useful for passwords, etc.

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http://www.carbonite.com/ads/ppc/Goo...FSMslAodA2-qCw

http://www.livedrive.com/features/packages

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in all fairness if you wanted to do it for free you could open multiple accounts. Skydrive for example gives you 25 gig per live account it wouldnt be a total mare to set up dummy accounts just for this kind of storage. You could even use a library system and each account could be for a specific topic ie LeeSpornpics@live.com could be one and LeeSchasingsheep@live.com could be another etc hehehehehehe

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I use vm- v stuff bit slow but Unlimited Storage

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginm...find-out-more/

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Most of my valuable data consists of music projects in Logic pro and any bits of photography I've done which are edited in PS3 also on Mac. I do multitrack recording sessions (some of them are very large!) on a 500GB firewire 800 drive attached directly to the Macbook pro. Completed projects are archived to a couple of 1TB SATA disks in this pc, copied manually with simple mac>pc file sharing. They're standalone, not mirrored. Photos are the same, copied manually between PC and Mac and archived on the PC.

The disks in this PC are starting to get a bit full now so it's time to start thinking about an expandable NAS.