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Re: [LUG] Upgrading Missus' Hard drive

 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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