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Backups of Media? How do you handle it?

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Pentium100:
LOL at bandwidth caps :)

Anyway:

My way of storing files is a bit complex, but it evolved kind-of naturally.

I have a lot (>10) of hard drives (total capacity about 3TB, largest drive 750GB, second-largest 500GB) but most of them are of varying ages and capacity so I cannot use RAID (well, I could in theory, if I wanted a very inefficient array and was willing to back up all of my data to create that array).

After I collect 100-200GB of anime that I watched, I record it to LTO tape (LTO1 = 100GB, LTO2 = 200GB), same thing with live action TV shows and movies that I download. I keep anime and live-action stuff on different tapes. I then gradually (when I need the space) delete the files from my hard drives. I also use LTO tapes for backing up (i.e. I keep a copy on the hard drive) big files.

To back up system drives of my PCs I use DDS4 tape (as LTO is too fast for backing up a lot of small files from my hard drives). I also use DDS4 to temporarily put away some anime or movies if I really need the space for something else (why not LTO? the tapes are more expensive per tape and I have some DDS4 tapes and the drive already).

For small, but important files (some photos, various documents) that need to be preserved for a long time, I use Magneto-Optical disks.

For home videos, I keep the miniDV tapes and also copy the videos to VHS or SVHS tapes.

kathy025:
I don't backup. Not because I don't want to, I can't afford to. That's why I just make sure I buy a high-performance external HDDs and do regular maintenance to minimize risks of corruption.

I lost over around 600-700GB anime in my MAXTOR 1TB before but it wasn't so bad since it gave me a reason to replace the old fansubs with DVD/BD rips. I now keep my entire anime collection in my SEAGATE 2TB.

Sosseres:
I don't backup. No reason to, failure rate of HDDs is so low that most likely only one or zero of my HDDs will have failed before I replace them with larger discs as needed. If they do fail I just download it again, I have no critical data on my hdds. Closest to data I want to have a backup of is my bookmarks in firefox...

I have had one full disc crash. Lost 200GB anime. 2 of those series was hard to replace, so I didn't.

halfelite:
For movies/anime/tv I run a raid6 NAS as its things I find not to important if I loose. There is about 20tb worth. And I also keep keepsake stuff like photos and home movies on it but they get backed up to an offsite server as well. I always have raid6 running at home incase a drive or two fails then important stuff is also backed up to offsite locations.

I used to run another raid0 10tb server to backup media but have since dropped it.

Zirro:
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Current solution with three pairs of Western Digital External Elements hard drives set up with RAID 1 for redundancy. Four of them is 2 TB, and the other two are on 1.5 TB. Finally, there's the old LaCie in the middle which I intend to replace later on. It has room for 1 TB. If I need more space in the future, I'll probably have to get some kind of server-solution.

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