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Re: [LUG] Backups and Storage

 

On 24/11/14 14:05, Neil Winchurst wrote:
My desktop has died for the moment. I have been having some problems
recently so I was expecting it. So until I get it sorted I am using my
laptop. Luckily I have good backups and I keep the laptop up to date
with the desktop so no bother.

However, it did get me thinking about storage of some of my files. I
have lots of photos and quite a few videos which I want to keep safely.
Up to now I have stored them on both DVD's and an external hard drive.
Now I am wondering what is the best way to store such files. A quick
think and I came up with the following ....

DVD-RW
External HD
Personal web site
Cloud services, eg Dropbox and Spideroak
Owncloud
Memory stick

There must be others. I also want to keep some personal accounting and
family history safe. All this not just for me but for the family too.

So I am wondering what list members do about this and what they
recommend.

thanks,

Neil


For those of you with unlimited broadband you could consider hosting storage for other people - if three of you get together and host backups for the other two then there's a reasonable amount of redundancy and you can swap security keys/drives etc and arrange backups so they dont impede then you should be pretty save.
I've been running on 560k all weekend so dont ask me!
Tom te tom te tom

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