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What backup device do you use?
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Hi Solaris,
How are you finding those ioRaid drives? I'm planning to buy 3 in the next week for all my online and offline storage (I'll probably get the 3.5 inch 40 bit ones). I might get an extra key cut too - since I'd prefer to use all off the same key.
Are they well made? Fast? I've read some reviews and they seem positive.
How are you finding those ioRaid drives? I'm planning to buy 3 in the next week for all my online and offline storage (I'll probably get the 3.5 inch 40 bit ones). I might get an extra key cut too - since I'd prefer to use all off the same key.
Are they well made? Fast? I've read some reviews and they seem positive.
I have the LaCie 500GB external hard drive, i have it pluged in all the time. If you are worried about it getting taken then get the smaller modles and hide it under the bed.
I bought mine here: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.asp?sku=300762firestarter said:
Only had it for ~1 month, but so far I am very pleased with it.
Need a bigger/faster disc though, currently using an old 10GB 4200rpm hdd I had from my previous laptop.
They have description of it in their UK store as well, but no price.
http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=300762
3.5" models:
USB 2.0: http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=300764
USB 2.0/FW800: http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=300766
You might need to contact them, to find price and availability.
I have an external HD, a Fantom 80GB Firewire drive. There is no way I'm going to waste my time backing up my data to CDs or DVDs. Not for what you can get a good Firewire drive for these days.
i have two backups. the first is a external 40 GB FireWire 400 pocket drive (The MacSmith). My second drive is an internal 80GB WD drive. For backing up the drives i use Carbon Copy Cloner.
Hey
I think i have decided to get an external HDD, i cant be bothered with backing up eveyrthing onto 10 dvd's!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19570&item=5152944592&rd=1
Does this look ok? I have seen the lacie, but wanna save a few quid, ans this one looks cool and is big enough for me for a few years anyway.
Anyone have any experience with this model?
Or should i not be stingy and get a lacie? if so, why?
Thanks
I think i have decided to get an external HDD, i cant be bothered with backing up eveyrthing onto 10 dvd's!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19570&item=5152944592&rd=1
Does this look ok? I have seen the lacie, but wanna save a few quid, ans this one looks cool and is big enough for me for a few years anyway.
Anyone have any experience with this model?
Or should i not be stingy and get a lacie? if so, why?
Thanks
marknicholls said:
Well, that's the point of using differencial backup systems... you only do a 10 disc (judging by the fact that you are just running out of room with a 20gb tape you would only need 4 or 5 discs anyways) once, then you you just do a single disc update every few days/each week. Most 'professional' backup systems work like this, except that they use a 20gb+ tape for the dailies... each week or twice a month or so they do a full backup onto a set of say 10 tapes, and then do a nightly update to that set. This allows you to restore older versions of documents as well.
Even with RAID disc arrays this is still done for the offsite backup. Offsite backups are important if you are serious about backing up data... anyways, best wishes with whatever you choose, but if you are "looking to save a few quid" then a second external harddrive is hardly the way to go.
Rob
Ok, when i said save a few quid, i didnt mean go for a 20p per DVD backup system! im not that tight!!
I am adding to my music collection everyday and my photo collection weekly, and it is far easier, to simply drag and drop my collection onto a external hdd or cartridge than having to muck about copying just what i have amended/added (IMO)
i think external HDD is the way to go, may even get a Lacie yet, depending on what i get for my Iomega Peerless on eBay
I am adding to my music collection everyday and my photo collection weekly, and it is far easier, to simply drag and drop my collection onto a external hdd or cartridge than having to muck about copying just what i have amended/added (IMO)
i think external HDD is the way to go, may even get a Lacie yet, depending on what i get for my Iomega Peerless on eBay
Truth be told, I've never backed up. In my 14 years of living, and 5 using the computer on a daily basis for multiple hours, I have not once experienced a har d drive crash. And even so, I don't really have anything important .
Occasionally, I do dump my stuff on a few CD's, though.
.Occasionally, I do dump my stuff on a few CD's, though.
if your entire music and photo collection was reliant on your PC.....Believe....you would backup!!!!
marknicholls said:
Well, I did dump my Music folder onto my iPod just in case, but all my digital pictures are on the dads comptuer.
marknicholls said:
Just for reference, the incremental backup would be automatic... you run some decent backup software and it will check to see what files in the direcetories you have marked for backup are either new or updated since the last backup. Most of the time it's a completely automated process that you can do by just dropping a blank DVD into your drive before you goto bed.
Anyways, it seems like you mind is made up, and I again wish you the best of luck with your solution. A lot of people do back ups that way, and it works for them.
As an aside, does anyone know of any good backup applications for OSX that can do incremental updates onto optical media?
THanks in advance,
Rob
marknicholls said:
Is there any views on this one? or is it a case that any external HDD is as good as the rest?
Thanks
marknicholls said:
That's fair enough - but you should at least consider having 2 sets of backups, one offsite.
Could be OK. Looks like a generic unbranded box with a HDD in it.
Personally, I wouldn't buy Maxtor, as my friends and I have had a series of failures over the years with Maxtor and IBM drives. I'd build my own (it's easy). Get a case from a place like this:
http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=29_1302_1323
And add your own drive. The Seagate drives under 200G are known for their reliability and quietness (they only have 1 platter which means lower friction/heat/noise). The current 'sweet spot' for gigabytes per pound is probably a 160 or 200G drive.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5151684486&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
i have 7 minutes to bid.
Does this one look ok guys?
i have 7 minutes to bid.
Does this one look ok guys?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5151684486&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT
This is what i bought in the end
What do you think? Good deal? is the model a good one?
Thanks
This is what i bought in the end
What do you think? Good deal? is the model a good one?
Thanks
I used to use punch cards. Then they came out with those floppy disks. 8" and they stored a lot more data. Faster too... Then it was 3.5" floppies in a shell (little harddies?), then CD-R, then DVD-RAM (yes, I got suckered by that one). Now I backup to hard drives. 100Gig, 100Gig and 250Gig Firewire drives. I rotate which is sitting on the server and always accessible with which is offsite.
-Walter
in Vermont
where the paranoid
backedup to the hills...
Then it was 3.5" floppies in a shell (little harddies?), then CD-R, then DVD-RAM (yes, I got suckered by that one). Now I backup to hard drives. 100Gig, 100Gig and 250Gig Firewire drives. I rotate which is sitting on the server and always accessible with which is offsite.-Walter
in Vermont
where the paranoid
backedup to the hills...
