Thread: It's important to have backups.
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Old 25-04-2009, 19:54   #11
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Re: It's important to have backups.
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Originally Posted by AndyCambs View Post
One back-up is nevertheless better than no back-ups!
I used to copy my photos to CD, but I think they degraded in the sunshine - now I copy to a shared drive as well as the CD, and make use of the VStuff...
My offsite backup is stored on a cloud storage provider that claim to have the data in multiple locations.

I've just recased my D945GCLF2 board from the mini case it was in into a 4u rackmount case I hadn't gotten around to trashing yet (Used to have an althon MP in it but gave the board/cpus to a mate as it spent most of its time idling eating power)

Will have 3 x 160gb drives in a softraid 5 shortly which I will probably use to keep a local backup on. (I trust linux's software raid implementation a lot more than fakeraid controllers, also Can mix IDE and Sata drives in software raid ) Not bad for using up spare parts

I'd rather not lose the photos/docs but i'm only prepared to go so far and at the end of the day although it would be a shame to lose them there are far worse things that could happen.
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