[Ardour-Users] Archive media

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Noel Darlow <mail at mcgruff.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>> Right now I am backing up to a portable hard drive and storing in
>> fireproof safe... but yes, concerned about eventual failure of the
>> hard drive, unless one were to rotate the backups to multiple
>> drives...
>
> Important data should always exist on at least three separate disks,
> IMO. It's a big problem with the digital medium which catches people
> out all the time. We're used to physical things like paper records that
> can last for hundreds of years whereas a hard disk might only last for
> five or so. The only safe solution is to have multiple copies.

Yep, I rsync my "projects" folder (which is its own disk) to another
disk on the same subnet on a weekly basis, and then do a master backup
once a month or so to a portable drive which goes into a fireproof
safe.

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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