| How do YOU backup your important stuff from you computer? |
| Offsite automatic backup (internet storage) |
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15% |
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| Offsite manual backup (Burned DVD's at work or at a relatives) |
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15% |
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| External HDD automatic backup |
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35% |
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| RAID 1 |
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5% |
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| NAS |
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5% |
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| I do nothing and leave it to chance that I will lose everything! |
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25% |
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Jester
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 90
Location: Villa Park Ilinois
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I make back ups of the pc's here at home by automation every 3days or so over the network to the server, I change out that storage HDD every month or so. That way I keep them rotated and stored off site  Simple low stress
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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If I backup my memories, can I then start a second life and if the second life doesn't work out delete and restore my memories of my first life?
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Z-Photo
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Huntsville - Alabama
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I use to have a model in a g-string standing/bending over the hard drive as security
but that always seems to draw a lot of attention
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 5320
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Been contemplating getting some drives. The cheapest I have seen is the Hitachi rebate deal from a few weeks ago that put it at $0.80 per gig.
I can get a few Seagate 750's at $0.86/gig but I am wondering if I will sell myself short in capacity and want to upgrade soon.
The hitachi's are now up to $0.94/gig.
So it is down to $140+tax with free shipping at tigerdirect and 5 year warranty from Seagate
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$190 with free shipping from newegg and I think 3 year warranty from Hitachi.
Only $50 difference and I did just get rid of my old 10" Dayton sub to a coworker for $50 so I have that sitting here burning a hole through my pocket.
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Zebu Fellenz
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| greg_mitch wrote: |
I can get a few Seagate 750's at $0.86/gig but I am wondering if I will sell myself short in capacity and want to upgrade soon.
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Watch out for the Seagate 7200.11 series, they had some firmware problems that were leaving drives bricked. Supposed to have been fixed but I would wait a few weeks to see if any more problems show up.
I'm also in the market for some more storage (media) and have been eyeing the WD 2TB drives. If they come down in price to >200 I'll pick one up. The extra cost per GB is worth it to me to have one or two less drives to keep installed.
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WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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The only units fixed were the units leaving the factory with their firmware updated. Any units already in the field (like the four I have) are questionable. But, after all the stink (and probably potential class action law suit) they stated they'd replace drives--probably upon failure.
NewEgg had a one day sale thisd week on Western Digital 1TB drives for $99 delivered (ahem, free shipping).
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| stgdz wrote: | I use mozy http://mozy.com/ for my backups, its great because of two things
1)its automated, backups happen every night
2)The software config will go through and pick out the important files, my docs, mail, and contacts.
Its great and has all ready come in use once so far this year, for 5 bucks a month the piece of mind is worth it.
For my network backups I am thinking about building a 3x1.5 terabyte windows home server. |
Blast from the past....
I have been seriously contemplating Mozy...but I have a few questions that I didn't see immediately on the website.
1. Can it back up multiple computers with same account?
2. Can it back up my network drives?
3. Can I add additional external HDD's after initial setup and have them be backed up?
4. If I originally have a drive or some files that are backed up and the drive is removed when it syncs...does it just delete those files or drives because it thinks I deleted them? When in reality I just relocated the drive to my office or another computer.
Thanks!
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grogthegreat
Joined: 16 May 2007
Posts: 166
Location: San Diego, CA
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I have a NAS that I built using some older PC parts, HDDs, and the FreeNAS OS.
I have ten 1TB drives in a RAIDZ2 (like raid 6) and three 500GB drives in a hardware RAID5.
Both my computer and my NAS are connected to my LAN at 2.0Gbps from two cat5e cables aggrigated together.
I previously had six 1TB drives in a RAID5 but had a bad day when two of them failed at once. I lost 5TB that day.
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| greg_mitch wrote: | | stgdz wrote: | I use mozy http://mozy.com/ for my backups, its great because of two things
1)its automated, backups happen every night
2)The software config will go through and pick out the important files, my docs, mail, and contacts.
Its great and has all ready come in use once so far this year, for 5 bucks a month the piece of mind is worth it.
For my network backups I am thinking about building a 3x1.5 terabyte windows home server. |
Blast from the past....
I have been seriously contemplating Mozy...but I have a few questions that I didn't see immediately on the website.
1. Can it back up multiple computers with same account?
2. Can it back up my network drives?
3. Can I add additional external HDD's after initial setup and have them be backed up?
4. If I originally have a drive or some files that are backed up and the drive is removed when it syncs...does it just delete those files or drives because it thinks I deleted them? When in reality I just relocated the drive to my office or another computer.
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Anyone have Mozy that can answer these questions?
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
Posts: 15909
Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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Greg,
According to the terms, MozyHome is intended to run on one computer. I don't think multiple computers are supported; you'd need MozyPro for that - that's what it's intended for.
A Mac article I found comparing Mozy and Carbonite said Mozy SAYS they support external drives, but that the software forgets the configuration if it runs without the drive connected. Carbonite doesn't support external drives at all - internal only.
There's also Backblaze. They support multiple drives, and multiple computers (for a fee).
SC
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 5320
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| ecrabb wrote: | Greg,
According to the terms, MozyHome is intended to run on one computer. I don't think multiple computers are supported; you'd need MozyPro for that - that's what it's intended for.
A Mac article I found comparing Mozy and Carbonite said Mozy SAYS they support external drives, but that the software forgets the configuration if it runs without the drive connected. Carbonite doesn't support external drives at all - internal only.
There's also Backblaze. They support multiple drives, and multiple computers (for a fee).
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So basically you need to have a home server with multiple TB internal to make Mozy Home worth it...in my eyes.
If I had a 10 TB home server with everything on it...this wouldn't be that bad of a deal.
In reality the majority of the files I want saved are photos and videos...most of them are on flickr, photobucket, youtube, etc.
Not the original...but some form.
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MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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Location: Osceola, Indiana
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I keep unreplaceable stuff on a couple of external drives, rotate them between home and work. I have about 9TB of BD rips (350 Movies) all NTFS simple volumes. If one drive fails no big deal...I have to re-rip 80 or so movies, I wouldn't be happy but not the end of the world. It's not worth having a backups because I have all the original disks.
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greg_mitch
Joined: 03 May 2006
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| MikeEby wrote: | I keep unreplaceable stuff on a couple of external drives. I have about 9TB of BD rips (350 Movies) all NTFS simple volumes. If one drive fails no big deal...I have to re-rip 80 or so movies, I wouldn't be happy but not the end of the world. It's not worth having a backups because I have all the original disks.
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Me too.
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akajester
Joined: 09 Jul 2008
Posts: 934
Location: Wisconsin
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Music and photos is pretty easy. I copy those to multiple places. So it's stored on 2-4 hard drives at any one time. Movies is a different story, just bought same size drives and duplicated the drives a few months ago. I'd lose some movies but that's ok, not the end of the world.
Thanks for reminding me, I should do another backup of our family pictures.
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