How many backups is enough?

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eyetrip

eyetrip

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My current system is basically have one full copy of each drive. So run everything off my C and D drives, then have two other drives which I back those up to.

But am not sure its enough. This method has stung me in the past (when I had one primary and one backup) where I landed up formatting my backup drive for some reason, and as I had done that, bam!, my primary drive stuffed out on me, ending in the loss of a lot of photos etc.

So, I will probably be implementing a third level to this and backing up the backups to other drives... but it just gets so blimmin expensive. Having 2 primary drives of 500GB would mean I would need 3GB...

What do you guys think is the best way to be absolutely safe? What are your methods/setups?
 
Some interesting feedback. Thanks.

I have to admit though, I hate the idea of using DVD's. I know its secure and safe... its just the idea of all those discs.... and as am building up more and more video files for editing, that would be a lot of DVD's :)

Even my photos can take up a lot of room...

Basically, I have got a lot of stuff which is critical, and pretty much irreplaceable (SP?).

However, when I think about it, I would probably not need as much as I said in first post.

I would have primary 500GB (2x250GB Raid 0) Raid because of my video editing - my video files will be on secondary 2x250GB Raid 0 setup, but will will save to primary as single drives really do hold everything back.

I would then have one single 500GB drive which will only contain an image of primary drive, because I hate re-installing windows and all the programs.

I would then have 2 external 500's both of which would initially get all critical data backed up to them, then would leave one attached which would get updated daily, while the other I would leave in a safe place. I would then swap them over on a weekly basis.

Does that sound secure enough? Is only 500GB less space, but that is still about £70 less...
 
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