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?
Well, my music collection is fairly static. I add a bit from time to time but it doesn't change radically on a day to day basis.
I back up two copies to DVD-R. I like the Verbatim MediDiscs as opposed to generics. I've had trouble with generic DVD-R. The Verbatim MediDiscs are DICOM compliant and acceptable for use in HIPPA applications so at the very least should tend to be among the higher quality DVD-R media. They do cost a little more, though.
I keep one set off-site and another set in a media safe in the house.
If you're less picky and have a dual-layer driver, you'd need 10-12 disks for your collection twice that for a single layer disk. Not too onerous by my standards, YMMV.
I also keep 3 different copies of the ripped music data on 3 different hard drives in 2 different computers in the house.
A RAID would be nice, too, but it's not really a backup. RAID vs. backup has been discussed here before.
HTH
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