I'm not overly worried about incremental backup. If I work a photo job, I'll copy the pictures to my computer but won't wipe the memory card until I've got the job completed and the photos are either online or in the customer's hands. At that point, (before I got the World Book) I'd copy the final versions of the photos to 2 separate hard drives and then reformat the memory card. With the World Book, I would just dump the files there. Then, about once a quarter, I'd get the offsite drive and bring it to the onsite stuff to update it.
I keep things indexed by year. So far at least, I can usually remember when a job was. Larry -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of db Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Data backup question The trouble with CD and DVD backups is most just don't keep up with it enough for it to be viable. It's a lot of slow laborious work and indexing/ cataloging coupled with shuttling to offsite storage. It doesn't accommodate incremental backup unless you are running some backup software which then ends in another layer of complex indexing... db Larry Sacks wrote: > Not to jump into the RAID vs No-RAID fray... but I seek a relatively > easily managed data backup solution. I've got a photography business > and am trying to keep photos from various shoots around. At this point, > I'm mostly looking for the hardware answer. I'll worry about the > software side of things down the road. > > My first solution was to keep copies of photos on 2 separate hard > drives. I would just copy entire folders over to each drive although > that was cumbersome since I didn't always copy the folders to the 2nd > drive as they were created. I also use an external hard drive (USB) > (that I keep off-site) that I only power on when I need to either > recover something or add to it. > > A little over a year ago, I bought a WD My World Book II that offered 1 > TB of storage. Out of fear of a single-point of failure (and before I > saw any of the RAID discussion here), I set it up as a RAID (mirrored). > > > Even though the MTBF's of hard drives is getting into years or > decades.... over the weekend, the drive management console for the World > Book informed me one of the two drives had failed. I've got it powered > off now and don't want to power it back on again until I have the drive > replaced and the mirror rebuilt - even if it's just a stop-gap > procedure. Basically, I'm worried the other drive will crap out and > I'll be left with a paper weight. > > I'm open to suggestions for data backup? I can't (or won't) rely on > just 1 hard drive. DVD backups are a possibility, as are CD. > > I'm currently using about 200 or so gb disk space. > > Online data backups are a possibility, although cost per month is > something I need to factor in as well. > > Thanks, > > Larry > > > ************************************************************************ * > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************ * > > ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
