I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. I tend to think of hard disks as production media not suitable to off-line long term storage. I'm sure that's no longer the case...

Any way, when I ripped my CD collection for the 4th (and final time) -- to FLAC -- I backed up the FLAC files onto DVD. Now, as I rip new purchases, I hold a copy of the FLACs in a directory until I have enough to fill another DVD and I burn those, too. Of course, the ulitmate off-line backup of a CD, is the CD itself. Mine go into a box in the basement. (belt and suspenders)

Robert

max.spicer wrote:

Manuel Rathmann wrote (in "New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver"):


[..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I


left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox.

This sort of thing scares me a lot.  I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours
ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of
data.  How do you go about backing this sort of thing up?  The only
really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and
use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks).  After that, I just have to hope
that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer.  Has
anyone else got any workable solutions?





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