gutted;237069 Wrote: > I currently use MS Backup, and this weekend ran a manual backup after > upgrading a few drives for larger capacity. Cheers! Dan.
Hello Dan, I have two possible suggestions and one comment. This is for anybody backing up a single drive with compression on the same drive or to a secondary drive: beware of bad media, bad sectors, and bad clusters. Any data written to them or any area that becomes bad is lost forever. And if the backup area or drive gets them it is a useless backup. Suggestion one is to get a NAS and run Raid 5 or X-Raid. No more backups to schedule or sit through, as itÂ’s all automatic. If cost is an issue (suggestion two), I recommend doing uncompressed direct copying of FLAC files to DL DVD. Doing it this way you never have to waste time doing another backup again. If a drive or section of drive goes bad you just replace the songs you are missing from the archive DVDs. First one does a complete copying of all their songs to DL DVD. Then when one rips more songs to FLAC (or whatever format ones song files are in) and has 8 Gigs worth copy them to a DL DVD. Now one has a permanent archive and no longer needs to perform backups. It is best to keep track of the new files on the DL DVDs in a simple database or at least in a spreadsheet. I have mine in a database with each DL DVD having a unique number assigned to it. My neighbor is using Excel to track his. Depending on ones system, it can be hard to listen to tunes when a backup is taking place. Once one converts to a system similar to this and all the data and DL DVDs are current it is simple just to rip new CDs to ones preferred format then spend the rest of the time enjoying tunes until it is time to archive 8 gigs of new tunes then back to the music. Most people will have great piece of mind with either one of these systems. Personally, I am a secure data fool now when it comes to my FLAC Files so I am doing both. I am running a 3TB ReadyNAS NV+ in X-Raid format (auto backup all data, spans data, allows for swapping out drives to larger as they become available, data safe from any one full drive failure) plus I have all my FLAC Files archived to DL DVD. Just some thoughts from somebody that has had to rip everything three time. I had everything in MP3 to save space (was only listening to them in the car and MP3 player). Found Squeezebox and ripped them all again to FLAC to play on the main system and through out the house. Was backing up to a second drive and had a main drive complete failure, bought new drive and went to put the backup on it only to find out the backup drive had bad sector and clusters! Bought a ReadyNAS NV+ and ripped them again as well as archived on DL DVD, and knock on wood, have never had any issue since switching to this system two years ago. My only hope is that my bad luck can help some else avoid all the ripping I have done by changing the way they approach protecting all the time they have invested in ripping a large CD library. -- iPhone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39558
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