Back Up Question
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- Dancer
I have all my work backed up on an external Hardrive (Lacie 250). Now i know the life span of these things is not great and I was going to do a secondary back up onto DVD and was wondering if I could copy direct from my External HD direct (via USB) to a my laptop > DVD. ie without copying all the files back onto my laptop.
Anyone had any experience/known issues with this?
- raskolnikov0
not as far as I know, and if there is, you're vastly increasing the chances for a bad write/corrupt copy.
- iheartfun0
You should be fine copying right from the HD
- harlequino0
As I understand it, DVDs degrade faster than hardrives. There was an article on media storage somewhere not too long ago.
- Dancer0
shit, really?
So what would you say is the best solution to back up work?
- Dancer0
^^^ Recommendations ^^^^
Will this work with TIme Machine as well?
- Ruffian0
I think it shoud but I'm not sure. They're all pretty similar with minor differences.
- flashbender0
online back up is where it's at.
DVDs do not last very long.
Or if you want a physical drive backup that will last for a longer time look into solid state drives.
- Dancer0
Ok thanks... online it is.
- Ruffian0
Look into Amazon AWS too.
- Dancer0
Backblaze. Done.
- moth0
Who backs up Backblaze?
- Dancer0
This could be an ever increasing question.
- flashbender0
livedrive. sorted.
- moth0
I don't really have a requirement to back up.
All my websites (work) are SVN'd with Unfuddle.
All my photos are either on Flickr or Picasa
All my music is mostly ripped from CD.There's not much to care about after that.
- moth0
And I still don't know what 'Timemachine' does. As far as I can tell - it does nothing except demand that I buy some other piece of apple hardware.
- johndiggity0
ssd will not last longer that a regular hard drive. at some point, you will lose all the data on a ssd.
- yeah, forget what I said about SSD, they are apparently quite finite http://www.storagese…flashbender
- SumWurk0
Use an online back up service. They are about $50 per year. Your data backs up via the internet in the background, while your working. It may take up to a month to back up your larger files, but it's worth it.
- epic_rim0
nothing lasts forever.
Drobo + online backup.