In my effort to get better organized this year, I have also been reviewing our current storage and back up options for all of our digital photos, my digital scrapbook supplies, and other critical documents in our house.
Our solution thus far has been:
Copy 1: Computer hard drive
Copy 2: Seagate external hard drive
Copy 3: CD's/DVD's/Documents in a fire box in our house
Copy 4: CD's/DVD's sent to parents in Kansas (they didn't know they were my offsite back up until now!)
Our solution in progress is:
Copy 1: Computer hard drive
Copy 2: Seagate external hard drive
Copy 3: CD's/DVD's in a fire box in our house (this is being phased out after the TV documentary on fire boxes that semi-survived the 2007 Southern California wild fires)
Copy 4: CD's/DVD's sent to parents in Kansas (sorry to say this is also being scaled back as the photos from the new digital camera are larger in size and can barely fit a few weeks on a DVD)
NEW - Copy 5: Laptop hard drive (which I use for portable scrapbooking, but also another back up location)
NEW - Copy 6: Internet back up to www.mozy.com. The initial back up has taken 8 days of continuous back up to transfer and encrypt 53.5 GB of files. This solution is costing me $4.95/month but I consider it a small price to pay for having everything in one place. Next step is to try to restore!
So, the permanent solution looks like this:
Copy 1: Computer hard drive
Copy 2: Seagate external hard drive
Copy 3: Laptop hard drive
Copy 4: Internet back up to www.mozy.com
I am fairly confident in our new solution, but if anyone has any other suggestions, please send them along.
2008_08_17 Soccer
17 years ago


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