What do you use for long term backup?

euser1984 · 07-09-2015 2:52pm #1

How much can you rely on a hard disk for this? Where do you store it?

NIMAN · 07-09-2015 2:57pm

I have all my important documents and photos on 2 separate HDDs, plus also burnt to CD/DVD.

EDIT having said that, they are all stored at the same address, so if the house burns down, kinda buggered!

Ant695 · 07-09-2015 3:01pm

Two hard drives in my pc, some stuff is on usbs as well and I put alot of stuff on my one drive as I get 1tb free through work although for the really important stuff it's nearly be worth it to me to pay to have it on one drive as well.

pwurple · 07-09-2015 3:10pm

I keep the important stuff duplicated in two places.

Cloud. There are loads of options, but I use google Drive for my scanned important documents and long term data, the paid version. Could be hacked, but I've turned on the 2 step-verification and my passwords are ridiculously complex and changed frequently. I like that it's remote, so if my house burns down, the data is safe at least.

On a solid state drive (which is synced to the cloud). Accessible if I lose my network connection.

DVD/CD is too iffy for me. I've had a lot of cd/dvd failures over the years.

euser1984 · 07-09-2015 7:58pm

I'll just say that I have two 1tb drives...one is working and one is a carbon copy.

T-Bird · 08-09-2015 12:12am

pwurple wrote: »

I keep the important stuff duplicated in two places.

Cloud. There are loads of options, but I use google Drive for my scanned important documents and long term data, the paid version. Could be hacked, but I've turned on the 2 step-verification and my passwords are ridiculously complex and changed frequently. I like that it's remote, so if my house burns down, the data is safe at least.

On a solid state drive (which is synced to the cloud). Accessible if I lose my network connection.

DVD/CD is too iffy for me. I've had a lot of cd/dvd failures over the years.

+1 But use Hubic and Onedrive