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Affordable and Safe Data Protection Practices?

Posted by Cliff on from the preserving-your-data dept.

cfreeze asks: "With the recent fire at the University of Twente, I started to think 'Are the steps I'm taking to backup my home network sufficient?'. The first thing going through my mind was the need to mail a set of recent backup discs to a family member. I feel this is a good first step, but due to the distances involved it may prove to be impractical. The second was a small hidden personal safe that is fireproof. What steps are you taking?" If you are interested in truly protecting your data, you have to realize that making backups is just a start. Next comes protecting those backups from floods, fires, and other catastrophes that might occur. What do you do to protect your backups?

8 of 583 comments (clear)

  1. booty call! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i am the greatest and leet9ist die shitheads

  2. Have you considered purchasing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...a large quantity of fresh, uncooked chicken?

    The storage capacity of a pound of raw chicken is really quite exceptional -- over 2 terabytes per pound...

  3. feminenly cleansed... by FatSean · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:Three words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Safety deposit box.

    Exactly. This is also recommended by a recent MSNBC article.

  5. Re:where are my mod points when I need them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    here

    If you didn't waste so many mod points on the trolls, you'd still have some left!

  6. Re:Getting a little paranoid are we? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    If you lose your backups to fire, flood, or whatever, just make new backups. The percentage of incidents where you would lose both your backups and the originals (given that they are stored in separate places) has to be so minimal that only someone who is either incredibly paranoid or has some really, really important would need to do anything more than create one set of backups.

    And, what's more, we're talking about home networks here. If you're house burned down, the loss of your data would probably be the least of your concerns! The Electronic Telegraph has an interesting editorial about this, but I guess the truly paranoid would never dare to click on that link...

  7. Re:where are my mod points when I need them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Please mod me down. Thank you.

  8. hi fools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    anyone ever hear of offsite backups?

    we need an entire goddamn slashdot post for this?

    here is the best way to proctect your backups

    1) find slashdot editor
    2) pull their head out of their ass
    3) kick their head until it collapses in to their
    neck
    4) move your fucking backup tapes OFFSITE, like
    backup admins have been doing for centuries
    5) quit reading this bullshit site, protest OSDN
    and all they stand for

    there