Robert please, not Roberto. It is better to have different locations that are far apart. If you have a fire and all the drives are in the same machine, everything is gone. The online options help you solve this problem but you have to trust your data in the cloud. Putting a drive in a safe deposit box at a bank may work as an option. Just remember that your backups are in the same city. A hurricane can cover a wide geographical area.
As Ryan says, it all depends on how important the data is, your risk tolerance, and what it is worth to you to mitigate that risk. If you have a friend across the country, just mail your new backup drive with his old backup drive. Your friend does the same and you essentially swap drives. It may not be cheaper than some of the online solutions, but you can backup quickly to a 2 TB drive and then just mail it. Keep another at a bank deposit box and you then have 3 copies of your data. Robert On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ryan Waterer <[email protected]>wrote: > The 3 different locations specification is fairly broad. It could mean 3 > different computers in the house, or 3 different hds in the same computer. > The idea is that the data is replicated in multiple places. As Roberto > indicated, if a HD fails, often the data is lost. Also, CDs and DVDs have > known to have data degradation over time. > > The different media types forces one to back up to tape, DVD, or other > methods that could prevent a loss of data. > > This is all about risk management. If the data is not important, don't > worry about it. If it is important, then take steps to protect it. You can > have all kinds of backups that won't matter a bit if there is a fire where > they ae stored. > > Ultimately, if you are confident that you cam restore your data if the > worst happens, then you are probably ok. How you get there, or if you do, > is up to you. > > Sent remotely > > > On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:01 AM, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Feb 16, 3:16 am, Ryan Waterer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Peter Krogh, which he calls Digital Asset Management >>> Essentially, for a >>> complete and total backup solution, we should follow a 3-2-1 method. >>> 3 different locations (hard drives, computers, thumb drives, etc), 2 >>> different types of media and 1 off-site location. >>> >> >> Why two different media types? Is backing my data from the hard drive >> in my PC to the hard drive in a network server more error prone than >> backing it up to a CD or DVD? Should I specify that the off-site >> location use memory sticks to back up my hard drive? What's the >> difference between "hard drive" and "computer" in your list above? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
