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Old 02-10-2010, 06:13 PM
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Default Re: 21st century data backup

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Originally Posted by M-ManLA View Post
I would make sure your DVD burner is good (I get Sony drives for the most part. Lite On and Verbatim are also good. The last time I tried a Pioneer, it Blue-Screened on my clients machine like crazy). Get DVD+R/W Disc, as they are more stable in a backup environment. DON'T GET CHEAP DISC (Like the Dynex disc at Best Buy, they are very unreliable). I would get a good CD Manager program as well like Nero or Roxio (There are also free alternatives that are good. They Linux community has a handful of them that will work in Windows or Macs). As an addition to your DVD backup, I would suggest buying (or get a buddy to assemble one for you) a NAS box in a RAID 1 or RAID 5 Configuration for the hard drives. That way if one drive is lost, the data will be on another drive.
I no longer own the burner in question, but it was a pioneer. Looking at NAS at the moment, my sessions are spread out across macs and PC's now thanks to audioport unviversal.
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