Backup solution

Wol

Wol

Wol

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Hi All,

Long time since my last visit, but I'm after some expert advice.

I've recently lost a huge amount of photos, which has made me re-think my backup process (or lack of!)...

I have essentially 2 machines, 1 Mac and 1 PC.

I'd like to have a solution that will work across all 3 and keep my general 'My Documents' folder up to date on all of them..merging changes etc etc. And also my Pictures/MP3s etc backed up.

Not sure of what decent solutions there are out there, but with my basic IT skills I was thinking of something like:

I was thinking something along the lines of having a low powered (and low noise) *nix box sat there all the time with a large RAID'd USB disk attached....you see where im going..?

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated..

Wol
 
A back-up on computers/NAS is not the complete solution. If your photography (digital) is serious then you should also be looking to burn you photos to high quality CD/DVD, make two copies and keep one set away from where you have your computers.
 
You can ahve any form of network storage, be it a low powered server running linux or WHS, or a NAS, and then map your "My Documents" folder to it, and use offline files. Therefore you are using the files on the server, which will be the same regardless of which PC you use. I dont fuly know how the mac would work, but with windows machines it would be a sinch.
 
how much data do you have to back up

I use an OFFline Hard drive, of 500GB flavour, i just synchronise my storage drive and my backup drive ones a week.

I use one of these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=72

and just stick a normal 500GB hard drive in it, it does esata and USB, so is very usefully

EDIT: missed the bit about mutable machines, i back up all other systems data to my main computers storage drive over network just using a mapped network drive
 
I use an external Hard Disk in which is switched off and not used 90% of the time. With TruCrypt and SyncBack I run a weekly backup of my whole system.

I also use Mozy to backup my docs everyday. For £3 per month it is worth it.
 
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