Its been a while since i last posted. As some of you may know our computer crased last month. We lost everything. Sadly, we lost several pictures and video from the past two years. I backed up some photos but not all. We have since subscribed to an online backup service. I know we have family members who are smarter than me who have actually backed up their files. But there may be one or two of you out there who think it can't happen to you. It can. This isn't a scare tactic just my sincere hope that no one posting on this blog ever has to go through loosing all your stuff. We are subscribing to carbonite.com but I'm sure there are other options out there. Maybe some of our more tech savy members can recommend stuff in an e-mail.
Anyway, onward we go. here is the first batch of backed up, downloaded pics. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Nat and Sheryl for their visit! We miss you.
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I've shied away from online backup solutions - I figure those firms are about as likely to go bust as a hard drive. Plus I like to have everything backed up - disk images, videos, etc - and the 300-400gb of stuff I have is a bit pricey for online backups.
I took Lauren's old computer - a 700mhz celeron with 64mb ram - and stuffed it with hard drives. It has 3 IDE ribbons, each one has two hard drives on it. It is acting as a headless file server.
One hard drive holds the operating system (vanilla debian, no window manager of course, running samba & ssh). Of the remaining drives, half have an outward facing samba share, the other half are exact copies. My laptop & desktop are scheduled to back themselves up to the file server automatically too, so I never have to remember to backup anything.
This way, unless two drives simultaneously fail, we're protected. It is completely hands off, I get an email if one of the drives is ready to fail or has failed (SMART status).
Plus we get a lot more storage space than we'd be able to put in a single computer, and we can share the data anywhere we need. It isn't hard to setup if you've got a little computer savviness, and it has been running since we were married and the only thing I've had to do is once replace a drive when one failed. I plugged in the new drive, and the computer took care of the rest.
Definitely not for everyone, online backup systems (I used Mozy when it was in beta) are much easier to use. My father just has an external drive that is a copy of his primary hard drive, and that works fine for him. There are lots of options out there - and there is no reason not to backup.
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