Comments on: Are You Backing Up? http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/ All your digital media goodness. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roger http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-85063 Roger Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-85063 I use mozy for my online backups. while on the subject of photo backups, lets not neglect our photo albums. How many peoples lifetime collection of photos has been lost in a flood or fire. That's why over the summer I scanned in all my photos and then put them on picasa. I use mozy for my online backups.

while on the subject of photo backups, lets not neglect our photo albums. How many peoples lifetime collection of photos has been lost in a flood or fire. That’s why over the summer I scanned in all my photos and then put them on picasa.

]]> By: jon http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84958 jon Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:02:59 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84958 i use time machine too. i would like to get an external drive with raid by the mybook works for now. i occasionally make a disk image of my bootcamp partition and drop it off onto the external drive. i have to grab disks and recover from them all the time at work. i bought one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102 works with all drives and all sizes. super handy. i use time machine too. i would like to get an external drive with raid by the mybook works for now. i occasionally make a disk image of my bootcamp partition and drop it off onto the external drive.

i have to grab disks and recover from them all the time at work. i bought one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102

works with all drives and all sizes. super handy.

]]> By: Jon http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84902 Jon Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:04:09 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84902 currently using a drobo for all data storage for networked media, with SyncToy backing up all my files each night to drobo from my main drive. i use a small flash drive to back up extremely critical data and keep that in a safe deposit box. currently using a drobo for all data storage for networked media, with SyncToy backing up all my files each night to drobo from my main drive. i use a small flash drive to back up extremely critical data and keep that in a safe deposit box.

]]> By: dwgsp http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84896 dwgsp Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:09:45 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84896 Microsoft's free SyncToy works well for backing up important files to an external drive. /Don Microsoft’s free SyncToy works well for backing up important files to an external drive.

/Don

]]> By: Joe http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84891 Joe Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:06:05 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84891 For my photography data: I use a FW800 1TB drive for primary storage, when photos are imported off CF, one copy goes to primary and one goes to backup storage. Then once a month I bring home from work a third naked disk which I plop into the dock in your picture and use it to mirror the backup storage. CCC automatically remembers what to do when the offsite drive is mounted and does an incremental backup since the last monthly backup. So I have 3 copies of pictures. OS and temp files use a FW800 timemachine backup. For the rest: I do the same thing for video and digital scrapbook drives, but there is no onsite backup, just the offsite drives. Other computers in the house which don't house any truely critical data just use Time machine with 1TB Time Capsule. For my photography data:
I use a FW800 1TB drive for primary storage, when photos are imported off CF, one copy goes to primary and one goes to backup storage. Then once a month I bring home from work a third naked disk which I plop into the dock in your picture and use it to mirror the backup storage. CCC automatically remembers what to do when the offsite drive is mounted and does an incremental backup since the last monthly backup. So I have 3 copies of pictures. OS and temp files use a FW800 timemachine backup.
For the rest:
I do the same thing for video and digital scrapbook drives, but there is no onsite backup, just the offsite drives.
Other computers in the house which don’t house any truely critical data just use Time machine with 1TB Time Capsule.

]]> By: Griffon http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84886 Griffon Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:38:09 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84886 Kit bashed a windows home server for about $200 bucks and strapped 3T for a pennies. It works well for the whole house, especialy the windows boxes. Also acts as a good data server for the xboxes and every thing else. Kit bashed a windows home server for about $200 bucks and strapped 3T for a pennies. It works well for the whole house, especialy the windows boxes. Also acts as a good data server for the xboxes and every thing else.

]]> By: Slight http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84885 Slight Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:07:46 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84885 I now only backup my data, not my installations. I use Jungledisk which utilizes the Amazon S3 services. Mostly, I am backing up digital pictures and a few small files. They are backed up automatically every single night (just the changes) and I don't worry much about it. Total cost for about 35GB of pictures is $5 a month, which is dirt cheap IMHO. I don't bother to back up the machine installations because I believe it takes me more time to configure and maintain a backup system than it does to just reinstall in the very rare instance of a hard drive failure. So, my recovery time is longer, but my backup time for machines is basically zero. I said I don't backup machine installs, but there is one machine I make an exception for and that is my work laptop. I keep no data on the laptop (so there is nothing to lose if lost or stolen), however, recovery speed in the event of a failure or loss is very important to me. I take weekly TimeMachine backups of the machine. I now only backup my data, not my installations. I use Jungledisk which utilizes the Amazon S3 services. Mostly, I am backing up digital pictures and a few small files. They are backed up automatically every single night (just the changes) and I don’t worry much about it. Total cost for about 35GB of pictures is $5 a month, which is dirt cheap IMHO.

I don’t bother to back up the machine installations because I believe it takes me more time to configure and maintain a backup system than it does to just reinstall in the very rare instance of a hard drive failure. So, my recovery time is longer, but my backup time for machines is basically zero.

I said I don’t backup machine installs, but there is one machine I make an exception for and that is my work laptop. I keep no data on the laptop (so there is nothing to lose if lost or stolen), however, recovery speed in the event of a failure or loss is very important to me. I take weekly TimeMachine backups of the machine.

]]> By: Jack http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-12/are-you-backing-up/comment-page-1/#comment-84884 Jack Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:59:58 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=6258#comment-84884 I use Time Machine with a pair of 500GB WD drives that are mirrored together. Works great ... though when I can afford a drobo I would love to get one. I use Time Machine with a pair of 500GB WD drives that are mirrored together. Works great … though when I can afford a drobo I would love to get one.

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