Digital BW, The Print

After trying a number of different backup solutions and considering many others over the past years I have just gotten an Acer Aspire easystore H340 server up and running two weeks ago.  It is an eight inch square cube that sits on its shelf quietly doing its job.  It came with a 1TB hard drive installed and I added another 1TB drive which leaves two bays empty for further storage expansion. The importance of adding the second hard drive is that you can turn on the duplication function for select files such as my image files and documents which I keep on the server instead of my computer's hard drive.  The operating systems are also being backed up nightly with the duplication function turned off since the hard drives in the three computers provide duplication for the OS's.  I just recently had to reinstall the operating system in my primary computer.  Unfortunately the most current backup was from three month ago so I found out how important a current backup of even the OS is.  An external hard drive is plugged into one of the USB ports of the EasyStore and backs up the files I feel deserve the next level of protection.  This hard drive is swapped with one I keep in a fire safe at this time but at some point I might consider keeping it off site.  The exchanging of this hard drive is the only step that is not automated.  So far I have been happy with this solution and now sleep better.  As I have found out the hard way the best backup method is the one you use!

Beau Wold


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pdesmidt tds.net" <pdesmidt@...> wrote:
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> I just signed up for MozyHome, a remote back-up service.  It costs about $45
> a year.  The initial back up takes a long time. Mine's been running for
> about a week, and it's only 17% done, but then it is backing up 250gb of
> data in the background.  After the first big backup, though, backups will be
> much quicker.  So far, I'm very pleased with the service.  This, along with
> on-site copies made to external hard drive, should provide pretty decent
> protection for my digital files.
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