An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox. ⇒
16 March 2010, early afternoon
I feel like I tell everyone I know to buy hard drives and make sure their important data is all over the place. People ignore me, more often than not. I copied my friends thesis (and the rest of her university work) onto the drive I store my photos because I thought it was crazy she didn’t have it backed up anywhere. Crazy. This reminds me I need to get my photos on to a machine at my parents house.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Maybe it’s because they don’t want all that wiring to ruin their lives? Until they make wireless hard drives that can be stored under beds and other none obvious places, we’re not getting any more! 8o|
by sh!ma on March 16 2010, 3:42 pm #
a friend of mine backs up to 2 external HDs and keeps one of them at his parents’ house. This struck me as a good solution; if his condo catches fire he loses maybe a few months’ work at worst.
I keep meaning to get a good portable HD and put it into a safe deposit box…
oh and isn’t the Time Capsule (I think that’s what it’s called) essentially a wireless HD?
by Weiguo on March 17 2010, 4:37 am #
Yes, but I’m not sure how reliable it is. I should look into that, though I think they are expensive boxes. I was going to copy an HD to my dad’s new computer and then rsync new stuff to it daily. That’s the current dream.
by ramanan on March 17 2010, 7:16 am #
Being able to backup at all is a decent amount of work but establishing reliability (i.e. knowing that your backup is valid) is more work than any normal individual is going to go through. And realistically you really want to archive your backups as well.
But not having a few of copies of your thesis is a bit crazy.
by Ju-Lian on March 22 2010, 2:58 am #
That’s a good point. The only back up I’m really confident in is my clone of this website, since I can run the site locally and see that’s it’s working OK and the data is all there.
The only other thing on my computer I’d hate to lose are my photos. They are reasonably well spread out, but a lot of my recent stuff needs to be cloned elsewhere.
by ramanan on March 22 2010, 1:47 pm #