backing up your backup

[timwilky]

I have an external 1TB drive that has become my wandering back up. It goes with me/laptop to work etc. and was my backup for work in progress and stupidly become my archive.

So today it has started to misbehave and got i/o errors reported. So I have managed to copy it onto a new drive. But lost 2 photos and a vmware virtual disk. Fortunately the vm disk was my standard build windows server system disk and I was able to build the vm complete using the data disk and a new copy of my system disk.


Lesson learned though, I haven't been backing up my archive. But worse than that, I carry both work in progress and its backup together. some git nicks my bag. Whoops **** kicking time for me.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by timwilky

But worse than that, I carry both work in progress and its backup together. some git nicks my bag. Whoops **** kicking time for me.

you don't work for DVLA/Home Office/HMRC etc.. do ya?

Thats the main problem with the lare drives, Its a hell of alot of data to loose when they go wrong

I learnt that lesson the hard way
This was the better part of a decade ago so I had a relativly large for the time 250GB external HDD with all my data on.
I had a backup of that on my main home PC.

I had been through and catagorised, tagged, named, and tidied up over 200GB of music and movies over 6 months on the external and decided to port this "Clean" copy to my main PC.

Delete Main PC's copies, copying backup.....disk head crash.....probably recoverable but not economically feasable...all gone
I still cry to think about the amount of Anime I lost that I can no longer legally download (Licenced) and I can't afford to buy at the mo

Going to get a NAS in the house when I can afford it and Raid the bugger on top of the local copies, that should provide tripple redundancy as long as the house doesn't burn down....

[DarrenSV650S]

I've now got a network hard drive which I store everything on and access from my laptop. I also have an external hard drive which I back up to every now and then. An online backup would be handy but I don't think I would trust it, or want all my stuff on it.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

An online backup would be handy but I don't think I would trust it, or want all my stuff on it.

I considered an online backup, but all that I'm at risk of losing is all the music I've illegally downloaded of the internet.
The concept of backing it up online hurt my head

talking of back up -

i got new laptop..

using my old laptop hard drive in a caddy as external one but it only 37Gb and my back up says it needs at least 64

so I need to buy a new external one then with higher gb yea? but if I only using it to back up what is the minimum gb I can get away with ? depends how much stuff I keep adding to my laptop I expect does it?

plus I need to make recovery discs one time only thing isnt it.. do I need DVD-R for that .. and it will take about 5 of them will it?