spudtrooper Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Skydrive ftw. I also have some hdd's laying around, but I appreciate cloud because my biggest fear is something happening to my house in which case a NAS / DVD / HDD copy at home wouldn't fix that.. I need something new. My HP MediaSmart Server, which I had upgraded to WHS2011 kept crapping out on me so I took it offline. I am thinking about a Windows 2012 Server Essentials box to replace it, but I think I'd rather just do cloud backups. I tried carbonite but... meh. I wish SkyDrive would add a backup solution like that though. Would sign up for that in a second! SKydrive apps work fairly well and there are a few dozen 3rd party apps that are designed for backup solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkos Reed Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Personally, I use Skydrive only to sync files between remote machines, not as backup. They have a sketchy history when it comes to file scanning and account lockout, ask Tom Warren.. :p Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak180 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 For music > all of my music is uploaded to google play music online > My Music Collection is store on a 1TB HD and is backed up on another 1TB HD. For Pictures > All mobile pics are backed up on dropbox > All pictures on computer are backed up on a 1 TB HD. For Docs > All docs are stored on Dropbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klownicle Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I have a 12TB Raid 50, and a Mirror 2TB, haven't gone to Cloud yet, but im tempted. Not sure what service would be considered the best at this point for windows intergration and syncing, etc. I would need at least 2tb offsite somewhere. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdot.tk Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I also backup my D drive to the cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 15, 2012 MVC Share Posted December 15, 2012 House fire/theft? Which is why I also bought 2 2TB hard drives, that get rotated monthly. One stays in my house, one goes in my safety deposit box. A Sata dock makes it easy to backup to the drives. MikeChipshop and Glassed Silver 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Backup? What's a backup ? :rofl: I live on the belief that a few tears after a loss is better than duplicating hardware I already have when I can spend the money on improving the hardware instead :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I backup pix to dvd. Personal files and pix are backed up to multiple computers around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 15, 2012 MVC Share Posted December 15, 2012 Backup? What's a backup ? :rofl: I live on the belief that a few tears after a loss is better than duplicating hardware I already have when I can spend the money on improving the hardware instead :p U Funny! Sense of humor this one! Detection and Glassed Silver 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 U Funny! Sense of humor this one! :D I try, I can only dream to come anywhere close to you in sense of humour though :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Crashplan as a headless install on my linux box for online backup and an external hard drive too. It's all automated. I'd not consider either one a MAIN backup solution. Offsite+Onsite keeps my mind at ease :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Battery Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Right now I backup to external drive and also to DVD. I want to move away from DVD next year because they are so small. Im thinking of buying a 3TB external drive which I can move all my DVD backups onto and then continue to let it grow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlen2411 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 external hard drive is the best solution i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted December 15, 2012 Supervisor Share Posted December 15, 2012 i use a combination of cloud for some things and external HDD for other things MikeChipshop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdot.tk Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Many people are under the impression that putting things on an external is a backup. It's not. You must also keep a copy on your PC's hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted December 15, 2012 Member Share Posted December 15, 2012 Many people are under the impression that putting things on an external is a backup. It's not. You must also keep a copy on your PC's hard drive. I would think most people here keep stuff on more than one hardrive. The topic title is regarding backups. Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdot.tk Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 You'd be surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 In this order: Laptop, External HDD, FlashDrive (Most used docs) and finally Cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 15, 2012 MVC Share Posted December 15, 2012 You'd be surprised. I have had customers tell me they bought an external drive backed their photos up onto that, and removed them from the computer. Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glassed Silver Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 NTFS Everywhere, however the underlying FS for the NAS iSCSI volume is ext4. Hardware wise, I'm pretty failure-proof Edit, did I mention I also snapshot my server and workstation system volumes? :D So only insecure filesystems... Hmmm, hardware-wise you're everything but failure-proof. Ever heard of bitrot? I'd suggest ZFS, one of the few filesystems one can actually trust. Backup? What's a backup ? :rofl: I live on the belief that a few tears after a loss is better than duplicating hardware I already have when I can spend the money on improving the hardware instead :p Wow, we're VERY different. Or you just don't have any valuable data. :p Many people are under the impression that putting things on an external is a backup. It's not. You must also keep a copy on your PC's hard drive. Haha, those fools... I would think most people here keep stuff on more than one hardrive. The topic title is regarding backups. Indeed. You'd be surprised. Nah, human stupidity is endless. No surprises here anymore. However on a tech forum I guess the amount of people who consider external-only a backup would be much lower than amongst Average Joes... Glassed Silver:mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkos Reed Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I hear ya on the bitrot issue, however, to counteract it, I have forced weekly consistency checks on the data written to my raid arrays Edit: I'm mainly a windows/intel guy at home, so zfs isn't really an option And every time the server is rebooted, a check is triggered by the controller Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Wow, we're VERY different. Or you just don't have any valuable data. :p Glassed Silver:mac I have some photos, and a collection of files I use for repair, a load of drivers etc etc, but nothing I couldn't re-scan / download again really, it would be a major PITA but not worthy of a backup drive really Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajua Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 I use a 2TB internal HDD for backup within my main desktop computer but I also sync the most important stuff to a 3TB external drive regularly. In addition to that, I always keep 1TB external drive with my personal stuff. Synchronizing and backing up with Syncovery is great and is not expensive. This is the software I'm using. I have planned to add a home server in 2013 to move all my internal backup data to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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