Dear all, I have breached the 1 TeraByte boundary. Today I bought a new external HD (LaCie 500GB) in order to be able to secure all my data better. Backups will now be taken off-site by means of two older 250GB external HDs that will be regularly swapped between my father and myself.

Secure your data! Take backups!

• Why external HDs? – Because this covers physical disk crashes. Data from disk 1 is copied to disk 2 and vice versa
• Why not RAID? – Because RAID doesn’t cover stupid mistakes (accidental deletion). RAID is NOT a backup solution, it only covers disk failures
• Why off-site? Because external disks next to the computer don’t cover disasters and/or theft