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ST Data Poll: Do you back up your data at home? Locally (on what media)? Remotely (what service)? Do you encrypt to protect from theft?

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Aug 6 '10, 12:04

Yes. Local RAID 5 server
Yes. Crashplan to remote storage on a friends' computer
No.

Responses:

I have a time capsule that I back up in three places, at least one of which is always not home. I am *not* almost losing my music again. -- nm - workmanda Aug 6, 12:15
More or less. at least two backups of everything on two different flash drives. - the liioulu with Aug 6, 12:10
I keep a 500GB external drive running most of the time. I recently bought a 750GB drive that I only use for backup. Question inside. - Dr.Vermin Aug 6, 12:07 5
- Which is fine until someone steals both the PC and the external drive. -- nm - Ender Aug 6, 12:11 1
  - I'm (sadly) using you as an example to many of my friends and colleagues. It is a situation that we mostly don't consider -- nm - oblique Aug 6, 12:12
- You should have two copies (whether on two drives or one drive + DVD or a drive + online) - oblique Aug 6, 12:10
- you'll never regret an extra backup. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 12:08 1
  - Yeah, that makes sense. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Aug 6, 12:10
Only thing at home worth backing up is pictures and I just dump them on a dvd every year or so -- nm - decline Aug 6, 12:07 3
- trust me when I say from hard learned experience that that's not often enough. -- nm - Reagen Aug 6, 12:08 2
  - i don't take that many pictures anymore :) -- nm - decline Aug 6, 12:10
  - Yup. My external automatically backs up media weekly. - Spawn Aug 6, 12:10
Signed up for Carbonite last Friday. -- nm - Ender Aug 6, 12:07 5
- What kind of space do they offer? - Dr.Vermin Aug 6, 12:16
- It should be quite well protected. If it survived the freezing process, that is. -- nm - Spawn Aug 6, 12:08 3
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    - Watching the rerun of 30 Rock last night with Don's funeral, I reiterated to the wife... - Dr.Vermin Aug 6, 12:11 1
      - Rookie. - Spawn Aug 6, 12:11
I use Mozy (used to use Carbonite, and then CrashPlan, but didn't like them). I also use Dropbox for some stuff. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 6, 12:06
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- Have you looked into any online storage at all. I'd seriously consider it, particularly for unreplaceable stuff like photos and videos. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 6, 12:09 9
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    - Even all the nudie pics?? :) -- nm - Don Homer Aug 6, 12:12 7
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        including aunt april? -- nm - zork Aug 6, 12:13 5
        
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        um... -- nm - decline Aug 6, 12:18
        
        why are you not posting these to us? -- nm - oblique Aug 6, 12:15 1
        
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        *ahem* - zork Aug 6, 12:15
no - znufrii Aug 6, 12:05
Backup (not often enough) on a WD passport HD. Don't encrypt. - ty97 Aug 6, 12:05 1
- I've wondered about that lately. I mean, just your Quicken data would be awful to have taken -- nm - oblique Aug 6, 12:09
I have external hard drives for back-up. Key files I email to myself. No. -- nm - Spawn Aug 6, 12:05

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