Collection Backups? (Or Redundancy?)

Adaemox

19-08-2009 05:29:29

What do you guys use to keep your collection safe (backed up and all that)? I'm just about to breach the 1TB barrier and I was thinking about just nabbing a pair of 2TB drives to put in RAID 1 (and probably another one for a monthly backup to be put in a safe deposit box). But, after reading about some of the bigger collections listed in the collection size thread, and currently being in the middle of both rounding out my existing collection, and replacing as much of it as possible with HD rips, as well as really wanting to expand it with some more series, I'm starting to think that's only going to be a stop-gap.

I'm now wondering if maybe a drobo, and a fire proof safe might be a worthwhile investment (a lot of the stuff I archive is cartoons and stuff I'd like to be able to show my kids, so I'm wanting it to be solid).

That or a windows home server, a raid 6 server, or something a long those lines.

End the end, maybe just getting two of the biggest hdd's at the time and updating every year or so might be cheaper and safer, but I'm looking for some tried and true suggestions if anyone might have one.

lysp

21-08-2009 11:35:38

RAID wont give you a backup. You're better just to copy it to a 2nd hard drive and store that away.

I'd still use the stored away hard drive a few times as with all things mechanical it may seize up from lack of use.

Over time hard drives get bigger, so maybe once every 12-24 months consolidate your stored away hard drives onto a single larger one that is the size of the day.

But always just keep a 2nd copy of things, one locally on PC, one stored away.