Backup your stuff, offsite!
April 20, 2008
So I’ve dealt with a couple of experiences recently on people losing data and thought it might be worth while to explain how we are handling all of our data and how it has worked out for our family. This has gone through years of trial and error but I think we have a pretty good system that I finally feel comfortable with.
So, first off, let’s discuss our priorities on data. Our biggest concerns of lost ’stuff’ would go something like this:
These are all pretty obvious but it helped us organize how we wanted our structure to be on the server so we can find stuff fairly easily. Could always be better though!
The tools we use
That’s it, pretty simple right?
Alright, so basically we don’t store anything that we don’t want to lose on our laptops. We store everything on our server and for a while that is where it ended. I was thinking, “Alright, that’s cool we have it off our laptops and centralized but what if something happens to any or all of those drives? Hell, what if a fire comes through? We’d lose it all!”
So thanks to Mozy it continously runs on our server and sends additions/changes up to Mozy’s servers, on the Web, to ensure that we have an offsite backup as well. We just set it, and forget it! I looked at it just now and we have over 60GB of information backed up now. Man, lots alot o’ data, eh? We paid for two years worth of service up front so it was like $100 bucks for us to get it but I’m glad we did.
If there was ONE thing I would probably change it is the fact that the server is on XP. I know Mozy has Mac clients too so I’d prefer it to be a Mac server and then we’d be a full out Mac home. That’s probably just the Apple fanboy coming out in me though. 
Backup your stuff & I highly recommend an offsite backup service if you do.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
[...] of this disaster stuff I see at work started making me change some of the stuff I do at home too. Like Brad Garland, I too have started to remotely store all of our family pictures, videos, etc off-site, meaning not [...]
April 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Very timely post. I just purchased a Flash Drive and downloaded important documents to it. Of course they can be easily lost or stolen so I keep a tight hold of it. Although when I first went to re-use it my computer and the drive didn’t play nice. Note small sinking feeling. After disconnecting it a few times, all was well.
I also wonder if somethings would be worth keeping a physical copy off in a safe deposit box and at home. These could included archived photos, will, etc. Since you never know when disaster will strick and how far reaching, multiple “back-ups” would be good.