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In response to "so the thing is that infrastructure for data needs to be much better before I can see dvd disappearing." by amanda

Plus, digital storage that doesn't accidentally die? Not really widespread or easy.

Posted by TFox Oct 13 '09, 13:56

Anyone who has lost a drive with their music collection on it is mildly panicked about only having digital copies of shit.

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well, at some point, media center (pcs/somethings) which include some type of redundent backup system will have to become comonplace. - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:00 10
- I'm thinking of doing one of those online storagey things. -- nm - amanda Oct 13, 14:01 9
  - Check out Crashplan -- (link) - oblique Oct 13, 14:03 3
    - i was gonna ask you about that - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:07 2
      - I think the only issue is that it doesn't make it easy to back up to or from network drives (it can be done but it's not simple) - oblique Oct 13, 14:09 1
        
        well, for me it would be right off the server - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:12
  - i am just gonna build a home server, and use some type of redundent backup (raid, something). - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:03 4
    - RAID is not backup, FYI - oblique Oct 13, 14:04 3
      - well, sure. it is and isnt, its a backup for the prevention of a drive failure - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:05 2
        
        RAID won't help you when your files get corrupted or something eats the partition table - oblique Oct 13, 14:08 1
        
        oh I know, I am actually going to use windows home server - tRuMaN Oct 13, 14:10
I like that amazon keeps my stuff for me. I hate that I can't watch *anything* on the road. -- nm - amanda Oct 13, 13:57 3
- Can you re-download your shows from there? mp3's, you totally can't. it's just like a running log of your purchases. -- nm - TFox Oct 13, 13:58 2
  - yeah, you can. or stream them. does apple let you re-d/i if you lose? -- nm - amanda Oct 13, 14:00 1
    - They're not very forthcoming doing that for music, I can't imagine they're any more willing for video -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 14:12

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