Backup solution

Discussion in 'Tech' started by ThatHideousStrength, Aug 19, 2007.

  1. ThatHideousStrength Junior Member

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    What are your guy's backup solution?

    I have a 250 gig hard drive filled with to the rim and a 80 gig that's getting close as well. All I use is my Macbook which has 7 gigs free out of 80 gigs and now I'm wondering about backing up since I'd die if all my Music, and Videos/Movies crashed.

    I'd like something more automated since it sucks hooking a IDE to USB device to backup stuff.
    ThatHideousStrength, Aug 19, 2007
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  2. MSP Haunting a dead forum...

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    MSP, Aug 19, 2007
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  3. ivanolo Junior Member

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    Keep in mind that FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.
    ivanolo, Aug 19, 2007
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  4. Electric_Head New Member

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    DVDs for the really important data like personal records/documents and my music collection. Everything else(video game ISOs, DivX movies, application packages, ghost images, etc) I just throw on my server. It has 4 320GB hard discs in RAID5. I have other discs of varying sizes to store temp data.

    I would never put all my marbles in a single hard disc. CDs and DvDs are suppose to be readable for something like a hundred years so long as they are kept in good condition. A simple RAID1 NAS solution is enough for the bulk of most peoples personal data. That way a disc failure doesn't mean you are fucked.
    Electric_Head, Aug 19, 2007
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  5. WoodButcher just me

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    I need to setup a backup system as well. I like the NAS that msp has. As long as I can setup automatic backups to that I'd be in good shape as I use the USB > IDE hookup to a bare HD for my most important goodies w/ a toolkit on a usb flash drive.
    WoodButcher, Aug 20, 2007
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  6. MSP Haunting a dead forum...

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    I actually have been running "manual" backups just because I'm paranoid. Meaning I manually fire off the jobs. The backups themselves are automated using the Windows XP Synch toy. Check it out, pretty cool:

    Download details: SyncToy v1.4

    EDIT: And yeah, the 4GB file limit of FAT32 worried me as well. But it has yet to be an issue for me.
    MSP, Aug 20, 2007
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  7. mistawiskas kik n a and takin names

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    I run a 300 GB backup drive on auto BU. In addition, Vista backup onto one of two 500gb drives. It's time to burn to D/L DVD
    mistawiskas, Aug 20, 2007
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