-an internet backup provider (yeah, yeah, "in the cloud")
Sure, soon as you can get fibre to the home in Ireland (you *can* in some very
select places under a pilot scheme from Magnet.ie and you can get 100Mb/s in
some places via cable broadband; but I'm not in either of those lovely
places...)
You'll need a lot of bandwidth at first, so add directories slowly, but then
it'll be differentials only, so this shouldn't be an issue.
-buy a NAS box that you drop at a friend/family and remote backup there?
Expensive and awkward, and you'd need two, so now I have a server and two NAS
boxes/external storage arrays (one is connected to the server at home with one
weekly image backup on it and running the nightly incremental backups and the
other is gathering dust with last week's backups in the now-very-crowded
drawer of my desk at work).
Do a two stage backup. If something is on DVD, and that DVD could be bought
again anyway, do you really need to back it up? I see the convenience of not
having to rip it again, but then a local backup is good enough.
Separate all the data that is important (pictures, videos, encryption keys,
scans of paperwork you've thrown out, contracts you only got in pdf form, etc,
etc....) from the rest. Unless you do a lot of personal videos, the amount
becomes manageable.
--
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/
http://ipv6.SollerS.ca
http://blog.zioup.org/
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