One big thing you may want to consider is that even with a single solution such as a NAS is that if there should happen to be a fire you can still lose everything. I would suggest that you archive each file numerous times to DVD's and distrobute a copy of them to various individuals that you can trust to hold them for you - possibly even a safety deposit box. The only unfortunate would the the data spanning multiple discs. For that I would suggest using some program that can span discs and include a copy of it on each disc. This might be a bit more of a nightmare to keep track of which copy is more uptodate, but it would be a good solution for those things where you are just adding to the archive ( aka photos/videos ) versus things that are rapidly changing and need versioning info - (aka source code docs etc ) Also every 3 months burn a new copy of all your archives. This will give you quite good assurance that you will have access to your data after the fact.
To think that If all the people posting that consumers should return DRM'd products and make a big stink about how they can't use decided to all go out and purchase a dvd/cd that wouldn't work and then returned it stating the problems, then perhaps they would get the message sooner.
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One big thing you may want to consider is that even with a single solution such as a NAS is that if there should happen to be a fire you can still lose everything. I would suggest that you archive each file numerous times to DVD's and distrobute a copy of them to various individuals that you can trust to hold them for you - possibly even a safety deposit box. The only unfortunate would the the data spanning multiple discs. For that I would suggest using some program that can span discs and include a copy of it on each disc. This might be a bit more of a nightmare to keep track of which copy is more uptodate, but it would be a good solution for those things where you are just adding to the archive ( aka photos/videos ) versus things that are rapidly changing and need versioning info - (aka source code docs etc ) Also every 3 months burn a new copy of all your archives. This will give you quite good assurance that you will have access to your data after the fact.
To think that If all the people posting that consumers should return DRM'd products and make a big stink about how they can't use decided to all go out and purchase a dvd/cd that wouldn't work and then returned it stating the problems, then perhaps they would get the message sooner.