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M.Blackmore wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:58 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:The only issue is backing it up.1. Rsync over network to an *ancient* PC with a sata card and a 1 gig drive
Take it you mean 1TB? :-)
Not a bad idea, off site backups. A couple of my customers don't even have off site backups despite me suggesting it as a cheap method of adding extra security.2. A pair of Buffalo USB external device my wife is going to alternatively take to work with her every Monday and bring home every Friday for backing up over the weekend.
Looks to still be about £130 ish for a Bluray writer with 25GB BD-R (write once) media costing about £4 and 25GB BD-RE (rewritable) about £9 a disc. Getting cheaper, but still not cheap enough for my liking.We hope that is secure enough. I await with impatience Blu-Ray coming down in price (haven't checked prices for ages now come to think of it) for an extra backup.
Personally I'd use DVD-RAM. Although they tend to only hold 4.7GB per side (giving 9.4GB on a double sided disc) they are more suited to archiving and are said to last longer than conventional media such as CD-R/DVD-R/BD-R. I guess though if you maybe backup the media every couple of years just in case then you'd probably be okay.More and more of our stuff that takes any space is static like photos and videos we want to keep of family stuff mightily boring to anyone else no doubt, but means that if blu-ray disks are getting cheap enough then a couple of them burnt for the static material would be enough insurance I hope.
I've got some good quality DVD & CD media which is going on 6 years old now and it's still okay, on the other hand I have some CD-R media kicking around which is about 10 years old which didn't fare so well.
My wifey has a habit of copying the photos off our camera and leaving them on the memory card too. Not really a space problem as it's only a 3.2 Mega pixel camera with a 2GB card, but it can be annoying getting duplicates in various locations. One thing I do like though is the fact we can just take random pictures, for instance if the kids do something funny or cute, even if it's not that great quality we still back them up. I'm not so fussed about the storage space required, but then we're talking about a couple of gig rather than hundreds of gigs.Must put pressure on wife and kids to select down the amount of not so good photos and videos so we keep a more highly qualitative set for the static "reserve"... at the moment the digital cameras mean they are still way to snap-happy and footage-foolish.
Yep. I remember years back thinking I'd never fill my brand new 1GB hard drive. :-)Seems like a different eon when we used to worry about fitting our theses drafts with embedded tables etc onto a floppy drive and having enough room... now documentation is utterly trivial in terms of capacity of media!
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