Backing up photos
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I suppose that should be enough
Any idea of which type of drives to buy, I have some I am using but don't know if I have to buy any type of drive when purchasing again?
I have my data, including photographs, on a 4 bay NAS configured as RAID 10, which reduces the risk of total data loss in the event of a hard drive failure.
I have this NAS backup to two external usb hard drives nightly.
I backup one of those drives to the cloud using 'Crashplan'. (I have to do it that way as Crashplan won't backup my NAS directly.)
I used to use Western Digital enterprise class drives in my NAS as they are supposed to be more reliable in RAIDs. But they're expensive and when I needed more space I replaced them with normal drives.
The bottom line with backups is to have as many as you can, on different mediums and in different locations, as you can afford/manage.
I have this NAS backup to two external usb hard drives nightly.
I backup one of those drives to the cloud using 'Crashplan'. (I have to do it that way as Crashplan won't backup my NAS directly.)
I used to use Western Digital enterprise class drives in my NAS as they are supposed to be more reliable in RAIDs. But they're expensive and when I needed more space I replaced them with normal drives.
The bottom line with backups is to have as many as you can, on different mediums and in different locations, as you can afford/manage.
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ive said this a few times now (i really must speak to the mods about writing a sticky), most recently in a backup thread in the computers section last week, everyone has horror stories about every brand so based on that youd never buy a hard drive again lol. and like andy says itll also vary between models of those brands.
personally i use seagate external drives and samsung internals (for NAS use etc).
but yes, multiple copies are the key. treat raid arrays as a single copy, ignore the fact that it might be mirrored as youre still vunerable to deletion, corruption and some hardware failures.
also look at an offsite backup (take hard disks or other media to work/parents/friends etc) in case of fire, theft etc.
personally i use seagate external drives and samsung internals (for NAS use etc).
but yes, multiple copies are the key. treat raid arrays as a single copy, ignore the fact that it might be mirrored as youre still vunerable to deletion, corruption and some hardware failures.
also look at an offsite backup (take hard disks or other media to work/parents/friends etc) in case of fire, theft etc.
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You still suffer from having all your data in one location even if its on separate drives. Thus the date still remains at risk through flood, fire, theft etc :shrug:
How many of you actually back up to a hard drive at a different location as is standard practice for commercial data storage backup?
How many of you actually back up to a hard drive at a different location as is standard practice for commercial data storage backup?
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iPhoto said:You still suffer from having all your data in one location even if its on separate drives. Thus the date still remains at risk through flood, fire, theft etc :shrug:
How many of you actually back up to a hard drive at a different location as is standard practice for commercial data storage backup?
Hence saying ideally factor in offsite copy. But the point still stands about it being a single point of failure for deletion, corruption, hardware failure.
As for backups at a different location, yes. Both professionally at work (LTO3 tapes rather than hard drives, although data is copied to a second hard drive array in the fibre channel san first then copied to tape) and home (portable hard drives and mainly blu-ray now). Commercially you'd be a fool not to, companies spend thousands on disaster recovery. In the event our building burns down at work etc our DR company rocks up with a lorry load of kit and we just restore the backups.
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