Have you got a backup?

[we11ingon]

This is a timely reminder as one of the disks in my RAID array has just gone.... Of course the files are safe as usual but it did remind me that I need to backup to external storage regularily!
I have also decided that I am going to print my best work at A3+ and if the worst happens, I will at least have one print...

 

[simonblue]

Mine backed up 4 times

 

[WilliamC]

Yesterday my NAS drive failed, completely bricked, and I lost all my full backups. Nervy time until it gets replaced, hopefully tomorrow!

 

[JohnN]

Local drive copied to mirrored bad for me plus occasional bulk upload to Flickr pro

 

[jimmy83]

No! Living on the edge! Just wish HDD prices would return to normality!

 

[Tunbridge]

I'm backed up to an external hard drive but I also burn copies to DVD and leave at my parents house. No point in having a back up at the same location as you are screwed if your house burns down.

 

[SThornton]

Dropbox, iPad, Laptop, Flickr, and external HDD. I have at least 2 copies of each picture.

 

[Ricardodaforce]

I use an Apple Time Capsule. It's good because I don't even have to think about.

 

[neil_g]

yup.. raid array backed up to raid array backed up to usb hard drives and blu-ray (taken off site)

 

[gnirtS]

Id be cautious burning stuff to DVD - they have a limited and fairly short shelf life before the dye starts to go off and data starts to get lost.

 

[Russ77]

There was me thinking of getting a 4GB NAS device and running in RAID1 to replace my current "set up" which is my laptop backed up to a 1TB ext HDD plus two other 1TB ext HDDs.

I've heard several reports of NAS/RAID problems so I think I may just upgrade my 1TB ext drives to 2/3TB and carry on backing up manually.......

 

[neil_g]

Id be cautious burning stuff to DVD

unlike blu-ray

There was me thinking of getting a 4GB NAS device and running in RAID1 to replace my current "set up" which is my laptop backed up to a 1TB ext HDD plus two other 1TB ext HDDs.

I've heard several reports of NAS/RAID problems so I think I may just upgrade my 1TB ext drives to 2/3TB and carry on backing up manually.......

raid mirroring is NOT a backup method, its still one physical copy and has the same pitfalls. you still require a second copy on another physical drive/media to be truely safe.