Squeezemenicely wrote: > Sure, drives are cheap. Good thing about online backup is, that it is > constantly synced.
That's only really a consideration while you're originally ripping your CD library. IMO. After that, most people might buy one CD or a few CDs each week. Losing the work involved to rip, say, a dozen CDs, because you only do off-site backups once a month, isn't a giant inconvenience. And the chances of that happening, because you've lost both your main library and your on-site backup, should be extremely small. While you're ripping your library you could manually run your backup to a local disk daily or even a couple times a day (it wouldn't really need to be 'manual' - you can easily schedule it to run). The most you'd lose if your main library was lost is a day's work. Then, create/update an off-site backup once a month, if that. Online backups of large media libraries are nice in theory, but in practice they don't always work very well. It can take days, weeks, even -months- to backup a large library given internet connection speeds available to most homes. Then there's the issue of restoring your library if anything goes wrong, which could again take many days to get things back. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105604 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
