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ark_ader:
I used to backup to tape, in the old days of half inch Blackwatch tape to the recent T1000s.  Tape has been a real issue for me, as I am really impatient and want to get data in and out quickly.

Therefore I use 500gb Sata drives, and just use a Sata dock.  I can get my drives dirt cheap, and it is the best way to backup and archive data.  I tend to backup in tandem, so there is very little risk, and I do not do increment backups anymore.  Compression is a no no too.  After a complete backup is done I vacuum seal all the drives in plastic and store them in a controlled storage environment.  Forget about CD and DVDs - the old bugbear of rot exists today as it did with the old 12 inch WORMs of the late 80s.

I still like flash for simple file swaps, but do go for the odd floppy for the older kit.

I dug out a 1gb Jaz drive with SCSI-2, going to see if it plays with W7.  ;D

Endaar:
I've gotten to the point where every PC I have at home has all its drives mirrored in a hardware RAID1. I would not use software RAID, but with most motherboards these days including SATA RAID, and with the cost of drives so minimal, it's pretty much a no-brainer. Drives do fail, and having a perfect mirror copy makes those failures pretty uneventful.

All of my (non-MAME) data, music, etc., is on one server, and for that, I also use Carbonite (offer code Glenn!) for online backup. Yes, it took quite a while for the initial sync, but once that's done, the incrementals are pretty manageable. $50 a year is well worth it. Even with the RAID, I'd rather spend the few bucks to know the data is there if my basement floods, etc.

Endaar

mmb:
I've a six drive SATA Raid 6 setup in the media server in the house and that rsyncs with a duplicate system off site.  I follow a 3-2-1 backup system for my personal data.  Three copies, on at least two different media and one offsite. 

This is for pictures, home video projects, documents and the like.  I don't rsync all content offsite and I don't duplicate things like roms/chds that are easy to get a hold of.  Configuration of mame/emulators/frontend I do duplicate, but that's maybe a max of 200MB.

danny_galaga:
I am very crude with my backup, but it's rock solid. I keep everything I would hate to lose in one folder, and copy that onto a removable USB drive, which i only connect to the PC when I back up. I backup when I've made some significant additions or changes, otherwise once a month or so...

Blanka:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 07, 2010, 08:35:55 pm ---I keep everything I would hate to lose in one folder, and copy that onto a removable USB drive
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Sounds like one instance too little, and just one location?
Also manual copying is very prone to human errors. With a good syncing app you are less likely to destroy your data yourself.

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