File Back Up System for long term storage
I'm wondering how you all back up your data on your computers. I currently use icloud and Google Drive as redundant cloud storage for pictures and videos...and... I recently lost some videos on t...
Forum Discussion
I have external drives and make FULL system backups at least twice per year.
I create a separate directory for each year and perform copies to that directory - I never overwrite files.
Been doing this since 2001, so theoretically I have more than 14 copies of everything since 2001. Multi TB drives are cheap. QWorks for me and is easy to manage.
Never liked off-site storage; don't feel comfortable about other people taking charge of my data; I used to work for a large Telco who used an off-site vendor for all their data storage (think billions of call detail records); The off-site vendors storage facility burned down and THEY had no off-site storage facilities !!!!! - we spent weeks restoring data from our own tape backups which we kept as a precaution.
From then on - I"M in charge of preserving/restoring MY data
I create a separate directory for each year and perform copies to that directory - I never overwrite files.
Been doing this since 2001, so theoretically I have more than 14 copies of everything since 2001. Multi TB drives are cheap. QWorks for me and is easy to manage.
Never liked off-site storage; don't feel comfortable about other people taking charge of my data; I used to work for a large Telco who used an off-site vendor for all their data storage (think billions of call detail records); The off-site vendors storage facility burned down and THEY had no off-site storage facilities !!!!! - we spent weeks restoring data from our own tape backups which we kept as a precaution.
From then on - I"M in charge of preserving/restoring MY data
