[Sparky191]

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Originally Posted by upstateguy /img/forum/go_quote.gif You guys suck.... made me feel guilty.... I have 5 computers on my network and four 250GB external HDs... been backing up all night...... I hate backing up.... USG

Shouldn't really take that long. I've about 400GB's of data (only about 60GB music) and it only takes 10 -20mins max to USB disks. Guess it would depend how much has changed since the last back up.

 

[GlorytheWiz825]

I only have ~40 gigs worth of lossless music so I can just have everything on my 60 gig harddrive and back everything up using an external harddrive. Should be good for now...

 

[matt fury]

I have 3x 320gb Maxtor pata drives in an old P4 on a decent 3ware card. Really important stuff is backed up to a 400gb sata drive. Offsite would be nice, but I don't have anywhere that I could setup a computer, and I can't imagine myself getting to the bank deposit box enough...

 

[ken36]

I'm with Monk on this.

 

[upstateguy]

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Originally Posted by Sparky191 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Shouldn't really take that long. I've about 400GB's of data (only about 60GB music) and it only takes 10 -20mins max to USB disks. Guess it would depend how much has changed since the last back up.

Hey Sparky#s

I don't make incremental backups anymore... a few years ago I went to retrieve one of my digital camera files from an incremental backup and found out a large segment of my photos were corrupt... now I make full backups, no software to corrupt anything, no encoding, no compression.... It's worth the extra time to have backups I can trust...

It's one thing to make a backup, and quite another to restore and have it function.......

USG

 

[Magsy]

I run 4 x 147gb SCSI hardware RAID 5 dedicated to music. Occasionally I take backups to a USB drive.

Documents and important files are sitting on a mirrored RAID array which gets a full backup to another mirror, on another server, during the night.

None of my client machines hold anything vital locally, it all sits on the server.

If my house burns down I would not be worried about my music collection

 

[prescient]

I read through all this and saw the rsync but that looked like it was for mac and *nix systems, so can anyone recommend backup software which will upload my files/folders to an ftp server? Something idiot proof as I don't feel like playing with it.

gracias

 

[krrm]

rsync is available for Windows as well, either through Cygwin which might give you more unix like apps than you ever want or as a standalone app from WINrsync. I'm sure you'll find others if you search. I have gone the Cygwin route (but then I think Linux is far easier to use than Windows, so I should not be trusted

).

 

[SebastianS]

There's also DeltaCopy and cwRsync

 

[HFat]

Is anyone using rsync over FTP for backups/mirroring? It's supposed to be used *instead* of FTP.

 

[UltraNEO*]

Hello all, I'm new here.

I just invested in the state of the art Pioneer BDR-101A Blu-Ray burner.. kinda backed up everything of value to a couple of disks and before archiving I've tested them, making sure the backup are free from errors. Media ain't cheap but price per gigabyte is reasonable.

Thanks to my company for the hardware

 

[wanderman]

lol @ raid for back up.

 

[dukpoki]

eh it sucks if you lose saved data but heck if your like me and have tons of saved data, then trying to prevent it from going away is the hardest part. so my theory is if you lose it just d/l/re-rip it back. hehe of course this is the most riskiest method but it is the least headache

 

[Sparky191]

The problem isn't re-ripping. Its correcting all the tags in a large library.

 

[pheonix991]

Nothing. I just pray to the west, and hope nothing happens!