Thirty-nine Steps » disaster http://gordon.martensonline.be/blog My Personal Speaker's Corner. For Your Reading Pleasure. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:26:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1TB+ and Backup Talk http://gordon.martensonline.be/blog/2008/01/05/1tb-and-backup-talk/ http://gordon.martensonline.be/blog/2008/01/05/1tb-and-backup-talk/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:15:33 +0000 Gordon http://gordon.martensonline.be/blog/2008/01/05/1tb-and-backup-talk/ Continue reading →]]> 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
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