Thank goodness for Firewire

[sbisson]

My desktop PC's data disk is dying - so I'm updating everything on it to my firewire backup disk (including the stuff I don't normally backup).

Proabbaly time to rethink just how I use this machine. I'm considering dropping it down to a single disk system, but with a much bigger drive. Following a suggestion from jonhoneyball, I'll be running scheduled backups to two firewire drives - and (as ramtops suggests) handing one to a friend when we go on holiday (or sticking it in the car when we're away in the UK).

I have to remember - this PC is my whole livelihood now. And I need to treat it as being that important.

And there are things on it which may not be work, but are still important to me. So I need to back them up as well.

Comments

Re: Backups

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

There are 2 issues with backups, losing the drive or issuing the wrong command, and someone stealing your computer or having the house burn down. I run mirrordir every night to a spare drive to cope with the former, and backup (too infrequently) to CD-R for the latter. sbisson sounds like he has both covered. Now I've ripped my CD collection I suppose I should offsite that, but its too many CD-Rs for me to bother. If I can get a MP3 player for the car perhaps I'll ship off the CDs then.