Good idea

[harold_chasen]

Read this this morning and thought such a good idea:

http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html

Nothing new but I hadn't thought of buying exactly the same drives before.

Comments

[s0b]

I don't back up everything.

My music is in three places - on the HDD of my iPod, on a USB external drive and on the HDD of my workstation.

My writing is also backed up in those places, but I ftp copies to the server at wychwood end on a very regular basis. (When I was writing Saying Goodbye to Amy I was doing an off-site ftp backup every 2 hours)

[westernind]

I felt unutterably smug when we got burgled last October, my laptop went, and they didn't take the network drive with the scheduled zipped backups. Would have been a lot less smug if they had swiped the network drive. I need to look into offsite backups.

[harold_chasen]

There must be external servers somewhere where they allow you to backup for a small fee? Here we have an automatic backup made to servers around 20 miles away.