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Back-up Strategies.
May 27th, 2008
1. If you haven’t backed-up your data in the last couple days, now is the time to do it. Go now, the class can wait.
2. Floundering for ideas to create a streamlined back-up strategy? Check out Scott Kelby’s strategy here - it’s nearly identical to my own. I’ve been meaning to write an update on how I backup my stuff, but Kelby’s post this morning is so close to the one I’d have written, I’m just going to point you there.
I got my DROBO last week and have yet to fill it with drives, so for now I use a 1TB LaCie for the redundant archives, another for offsite backup at a friend’s studio, and I use Hyperdrives instead of the Epson P5000 (Here’s a solid review of the Hyperdrive from Luminous Landscape.) I haven’t used Apple’s Time Capsule either, and instead just use a LaCie drive and SuperDuper to create a bootable copy every two days.
However you do it, do it simply, do it redundantly, do it often, do it now.
Amen brotha!!! I preach this all day everyday. I can’t count the number of freaked out photographers I’ve seen that have a failed hard drive and did not have the wedding they shot last week backed up. Keep preaching the back up word!
I use Titan Backup to backup to an external HDD my emails and important files.
You can test TB for free at :
http://www.titanbackup.com/download.html
Drobo is a very good looking system, but it uses it’s own proprietary system. when the Drobo will crash how will you recover?
http://foto-biz.com/doku.php/blog:drobo
Well, the point of the DROBO is to step out of the old RAID paradigm and build in redundancy at a software and hardware level, as I understand it. IF I have problems I will take advantage of DROBO’s service and have it fixed/recovered. And IF DROBO goes under, I will look for another system. Prices on gigabite space are falling dramatically, and file sizes for cameras keep going up - I look at storage as a 2-4 investment, tops, after which I will undoubtedly move on to something bigger/better/faster/safer/cheaper - who knows.
But for now the reviews I have heard from people I respect are solid. Your concerns are valid, but not enough, for me, to outweigh the pros of using this as an archive device.
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