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Well the time has come for me to be responsible and back up all of the music on my hard drive because you never know what could happen but I'm wondering what is the best way to go about this? What method do you think is best? External hard drive? Internal hard drive (that's usually kept disconnected)? DVD-R or CD-R discs? What's the most time effecient way? Cost efficient way? Most reliable way?
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cost efficient - dvd-r (for one time) / dvd-rw (for multiple times)
reliable - cd/dvd-r/rw
time efficient - internal hard drive
Personally I disagree with CSMR about the reliablilty issue. There are many ways to screw up a hard drive, but there isn't any way of screwing up a dvd/cd short of physically damaging it.
All in all, I would take the time and use dvd's as backup. The capacity of cd's are too small to be practical for media backup nowadays.
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First of alll I disagree that DVDR can nly be screwed up by physically damaging it.
I have had a couple of DVDR's undergo improper write cycles, consequently, the data on the outer tracks was unreadable.
Cheapest way is DVDR and perfectly reliable if you use good quality sleeves.
As for efficient Hard drive is more efficient but I just rip the whole CD to FLAC with everything on it.
Essentially a perfect copy of my CD and exactly the same as the original.
I suppose cost efficient - DVDR
Time efficient and reliable - hard drive
not true. Reliability of harddrives assumes that you use it. If left to just sit on a shelf gathering dust, they fail much more rapidly (sort of like a lot of things...). Using the drive regularly (but not excessively) will improve its reliability.
You could go with a tape drive, but I think the drives are somewhere around $1,000, and I have no clue how reliable they are. The thing about DVDR's is that to back up an entire flac collection still consumes an entire spindle... And if you don't have an uber speedy drive, it's a pretty long time commitment.
I don't. But I have copies of all my CDs on my hdd as flac. Might get around to putting them onto DVD-R some time, if I can be arsed. At an average of 275MB/CD with FLAC, you'd fit 17-20 on each DVD.
I have two home computers with big secondary hard drives (for music, games, etc) on a home network, so I keep a copy of my FLAC files on both. I use a program called Filesync to sync the FLAC directory on each computer with the other computer every week or so.
This has paid off, by the way...my main computer had its secondary drive corrupted a couple of months ago. If I hadn't backed up the files on my second computer, many of my FLAC files would have been lost (I lost about 1/3 of the drive...the files either disappeared or became corrupt).
not true. Reliability of harddrives assumes that you use it. If left to just sit on a shelf gathering dust, they fail much more rapidly (sort of like a lot of things...). Using the drive regularly (but not excessively) will improve its reliability.
Didn't realize drives are likely to fail without use. My family's never had a problem with a hard drive, but a few of my CDRs have gone bad over time. (Other people have also found that CDRs can go bad.) But then I wasn't using the best discs or drive. And perhaps DVD-Rs last longer?
All media, hard drive, CD-ROM, or DVD, can and will fail eventually. Your best bet for really important data is to keep one copy on another hard drive, and another copy on CD/DVD. For music it's not so important, but perhaps keeping a copy archived on DVD is a good idea.
How do you back up your music files?
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