Re: Backing Up

Matt <mattb95@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Hello. Further to a previous post, I have basically learnt a hard lesson
about backing up my data, so now my hard drive is being dealt with my
professionals, I'm looking to the future and how I will do my backing up.

I want something that is convenient, but also offers good
capacity as my work data continues to grow in size. To that
end, I've been looking at either getting an external hard drive

Thats generally the best approach for most.

or looking for more "off-site" methods.

How viable that is really depends on the volume of NEW data you
produce and how feasible it is for the backup system to just copy
the NEW data offsite, and whether you have broadband etc.

It's probably overkill, but if something were to happen here at home
it would be good to have a backup that is at a different location.

Yes, you do need to protect against fire, flood, theft etc, even
if thats done at a lower frequency than the normal backups.

To that end, finding a company that provides online storage
space could be a good solution as I could access my data
even when I'm away from home, it's "off-site" and it would
be easy to automate a regular backup using an FTP server.
Are their any companies out there people can recommend?

You havent supplied enough data on the rate of
new data and what you have broadband wise etc.

I estimate my data requirements would be about 10GB for now,

Do you really have that much data that is irreplaceable ?

but I would like the option to allow this to grow. I would rather pay
a flat fee and get lots of space, rather the paying by the gigabyte,
as this just discourages making the backups in the first place.

Its not likely to be anything like as cheap as a DVD
burner and taking a DVD offsite occassionally.

Has your financial situation changed enough to be able to afford anything better than DVDs ?


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