Your back up or external storage solutions for your PC?

[ghosthunter]

What kind of back up system do you use for your PC?

Do you use external drives? Mirroring? Burning to CD/DVD?

[ghosthunter]

Currently I am using a USB to SATA dock and internal SATA HDD as backup for my stuff at home.

At my office, my server has a daily data backup to USB flash drive (rotating between three flash drives) along with the server's HDD mirroring.

[CVT]

Personal files,- external drive.

Office Files (Emails, Reports, Studies et al) - IT takes care of it. However, I do my own backups on DVDs. There is a document retention policy in our office, though.

12.8K:toma:

[testament11]

I have one external drive for backing up my files. I plan to buy another one para exclusive lang sa mga photos ko

[ghosthunter]

Personal files,- external drive.

Office Files (Emails, Reports, Studies et al) - IT takes care of it. However, I do my own backups on DVDs. There is a document retention policy in our office, though.

12.8K:toma:

Your DVD backups are kept over a year? No issues with CD-rot?

[CVT]

Your DVD backups are kept over a year? No issues with CD-rot?

I still have those DVDs since 3-4 years ago (office emails - against company policy... )

The last time I checked them, which was early this year,- the files are still intact....

12.8K:toma:

[ghosthunter]

I still have those DVDs since 3-4 years ago (office emails - against company policy... )

The last time I checked them, which was early this year,- the files are still intact....

12.8K:toma:

How did you check your files? ... Did you just list them or did you actually opened them or tried copying them temporarily to another drive?

My defective CDs might show me the list of files/folders but fails to read/copy the actual file.

[CVT]

I copied a couple to my hard disk. Then, added them to my Outlook Mails Folder, and opened them using Outlook. I still can read my old emails....

12.8K:toma:

[MXFX]

i burn and verify files (mostly pics and videos) on taiyo yuden dvdrs. still good after a few years but also looking to add external hd, or just buy a bigger drive to add to my desktop.

[roninblade]

i have several external hdds for backups at home.

[juntzo]

I have 2 NAS. My work and personal files are on a Synology DS111 which backups to a Dlink DNS 323. An external USB drive serves as another backup for more critical files which I can take with me.

[kinyo]

i have 250, 320 and 50 GB external USB-powered HD's ... all of them Freecom brand

250GB for photos
320GB for ebooks, software, etc
500GB for videos, normally used on WD Mediaplayer

[12vdc]

I back also the hardware.. Using 2 laptops, 2desktop 500GB and 2TB HDD respectively.. Another PC used at home-theater with 500GB and 2TB HDD, dedicated for storing downloaded movies,****,music, pics and some not important media files.. If the HDD expires, i just replace it then copy the files from the other hardware..

[Slick50]

I bought a few of these when I last went to the US.

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB Metallic Blue Portable External Hard Drive WDBACX0010BBL-NESN

• Form Factor: 2.5"
• Interface: USB 3.0

[oj88]

Backing up 10 computers on a Windows Home Server.

[hondaboot]

my files are now in the Cloud. am future-proofing na.

[oj88]

my files are now in the Cloud. am future-proofing na.

That's great if you're just working with file sizes up to a few MBs. But for bigger ones, it may not be as practical, given that bandwidth is still particularly expensive here. That and the proposed daily/monthly data volume capping by major telcos, coud hinder our direction towards cloud computing and storage.

I have a few essental files on Skydrive but that's it. I don't think I can use the cloud to backup a terrabyte or two worth of data. Not just yet anyway.

[ghosthunter]

my files are now in the Cloud. am future-proofing na.

Trying uploading to the "Cloud" hundreds of high quality photos that range in size of 2MB to 5MB each as well as video that range in size of 150mb to 4gb.

Then later try accessing them on the limited bandwidth that the local ISPs are pushing with their "fair use" policy. You would be lucky if you get to access them at all.

And once you have uploaded all of that, how sure are you the Cloud service provider will not go belly up in the next year or so?