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Backups of Media? How do you handle it?
QlShdR:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on May 11, 2011, 11:24:00 PM ---Recently started using BD disks, they are actually suprisingly good. Hold alot of data!
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Well, time will tell. But I'll put my faith into them.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: QlShdR on May 13, 2011, 08:36:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on May 11, 2011, 11:24:00 PM ---Recently started using BD disks, they are actually suprisingly good. Hold alot of data!
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Well, time will tell. But I'll put my faith into them.
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I did the whole burning onto disk thing ages ago. I found myself never go back to them again. I never re-watch an anime because I was too lazy to go through my DVD book to watch them. Then again this was when I only had one computer and can only watch downloaded anime on my PC and not my TV.
Freedom Kira:
IMO optical media are best for sharing, not for backing up data. If someone wants a copy of something you've downloaded, just burn a DVD and fork it over. $0.25 to share up to 4.38GB of data is pretty cool.
per:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on May 13, 2011, 03:11:26 PM ---IMO optical media are best for sharing, not for backing up data. If someone wants a copy of something you've downloaded, just burn a DVD and fork it over. $0.25 to share up to 4.38GB of data is pretty cool.
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Then again, simply copying the data over the network, or telling them where to download it is usually way faster, unless they live next door, and if so you could have a 1Gbps local network.. :-)
Personally I only backup to other harddrives, and only backup things that can not easily be downloaded again.
The drives I backup to are located in a different physical locations, though. One alternative if you do not feel like setting up your own servers around the world is to use a service like jungledisk.
The "harddrives will not last!" argument is not really relevant since you usually replace them every few years, so "live" backups get copied to new drives regularly.
I only have ~10Tb of media, but having "real" backups of even that amount is a pain.
One of the things I do keep a backup of is the uTorrent state of my torrent-server, by the way.
TorturdChaos:
I don't have much for a backup at home. I have serveral 1TB WD Black drives that I store everything on on my computer and have a bit of backup done for stuff I really don't want to loose - like my music is mirrored over to another drive just in case, and its on my laptop. I have a folder over useful software, some of which I would have trouble finding again so I keep it on several different hdd's in case one fails. But all my anime, games, movies and TV shows I only keep one copy of due to space restrictions.
I'm working on finishing my media server which I think will get some cheaper HDD's to use as backup and run the WD Blacks as the main drives in it.
At work we have everything on a networked sever running FreeBSD that then gets copied to a spare HDD in my computer than backed up with Carbonite. I wish I could just load carbonite on the FreeBSD sever but it only runs on Windows, and I didn't know this until after the boss had paid the subsucription service. Also can't backup off a network drive.... (I really don't like Carbonite and wish we used something like CrashPlan, which you can install on ANY OS and even do backup's between machines for free. If we had that I would just have everything backup between our 3 stores.)
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