[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Bill Davis]

Not wild at all.  This is exactly what I do.   I have two large hard  
disks.  One at home for backup, and one at work (for off site storage  
- important!).   I have a laptop, so I just take it to work and run a  
backup there while I work.    I do the same with "archival" drives as  
opposed to my "working" hard disk.

Other folks could keep their drive at their parents, or in a safe  
deposit box (if the drive is small enough..and you can get 160-200GB  
laptop drives that are TINY these days) and swap them out if you  
don't have a laptop.  Backup to one, take it to the safe deposit box  
or to mom and dad's, bring back the other one, repeat.

Might also be wise to archive off to DVD or something too, just for a  
third level.

And with Apple's new "Time Machine" backup solution coming in OS X  
10.5, there may be additional aspects to think about.

  - Bill

On Aug 22, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:

> Here is a wild one. You don't say how large the total is but you  
> might try this. Buy two good external firewire drives--500 GB say.  
> Copy your material to both of them at the same time. When they get  
> full (or in about three hears) buy two which are double in size,  
> copy your material over and continue adding with the latest  
> technology. Of course if the technology changes sooner than that  
> switch when you need to do so.
>
> Like I say--wild but it might work
>
> I'm like Jon, I don't fully trust Iomega for long term sollutions.  
> Their drives have caused too much trouble for others and for me.