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Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan?

Posted by Soulskill on from the giant-stack-of-floppy-disks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I know most people use backup services in the cloud now, off-site, but does anyone have good ideas on how to best protect data without it leaving the site? I'm a photographer and, I shoot 32GB to 64GB in a couple of hours. I've accumulated about 8TB of images over the past decade and just can't imagine paying to host them somewhere off-site. I don't make enough money as it is. Currently I just redundantly back them up to hard drives in different rooms of my house, but that's a total crapshoot — if there's a fire, I'd be out of luck. Does anyone keep a hard disk or NAS inside a fireproof safe? In a bunker in the cellar? In the detached garage? It's so much data that even doing routine backups bogs the system down for days. I'd love suggestions, especially from gamers or videographers who have TBs of data they need to back up, on what options there are with a limited budget to maximize protection."

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  1. USB Stick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    My preferred way is to copy the data to many different USB sticks. I write a little note with my name and address on it, slip the that and the stick into a bottle and pitch it into the ocean. Data is safe from fires and most other natural disasters. Best of all, people around the world contact me (we even become FB friends after!) and return the USB with all my data!

    Works like a charm

  2. megaupload by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    megaupload

  3. Mom? by microcars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give your mom a box of backups and ask her to hold on to it, it is "stuff you made"
    She'll never get rid of it.
    and if the house catches fire, it will be the first thing she grabs when she runs out.

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    I like microcars
    1. Re:Mom? by funwithBSD · · Score: 4, Funny

      Glue some macaroni art on the drives if you think she might forget what they are...

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      Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
  4. Re:Offsite != cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if you don't have any friends, keep one in a bank's safe deposit box. They're usually not that pricey.

    Be careful with that, I store my expensive 200+ pound pull strength rare earth magnets in mine :)

  5. Re:raid 0 swap by funwithBSD · · Score: 4, Funny

    My RAID goes to 11, man....

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    Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
  6. Re:Fireproof Hard Drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, I'm going to go with the fire fighter.

  7. Re:Offsite != cloud by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it seems like every other day some poor photographer has his photos rifled through by the local bank.

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    W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  8. Re:Offsite != cloud by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if you don't have any friends, keep one in a bank's safe deposit box.

    Don't forget to poke holes in the safe deposit box so he can breathe.