Backups: What You Should Know

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How important is your data? Not an easy question to answer, but are you prepared to lose all that data on your computer if it died right now? Most will say no and you should read this article.

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There is a new article posted at »ASE Labs

»Backups: What You Should Know

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How important is your data? Not an easy question to answer, but are you prepared to lose all that data on your computer if it died right now? Most will say no and you should read this article.

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nice articale, i have my data backed up on 3 hard drives not to mention my music collection is on about 3 of my friends hard drives too

Just some stream of consciousness and mental masturbation: First, I can not emphasize how unreliable optical media can be. A study done on CDR media found that 50% of average media was UNREADABLE after 2 years in typical storage. Arhchival Media (Delkin, Memorex Pro, MAM in Optimum conditions will last 100 years, but you have to treat the media right! Iomega pushed Zip as a safer alternative for storage for most (careless) people, but face it, Zip is as up to date as cave wall etchings. Aron writes about Rev...we use it here to a limited extent and we use it for our end users where it is easy to deal with, acts just like a HD and now comes in a 70GB uncompressed format. As far as some of the more interesting ideas are concerned, there is increasing reliability of inexpensive SAN devices where a RAID mirror can be formed in a geographically disparate area. Each drive will have seperate IP addresses and now you can have a copy of your data in 2 or more seperate locations as long as you have adequate bandwidth between them. The devices I have seen are still too buggy for my tastes but they improve every day. I am using an Intel Storage Server (SS4000E) and am thrilled. It is a flexible and inexpensive NAS that hold 4 SATA drives in a variety of configurations. I use it to back up all of my systems and then write the important data from it to tape.