Hard Drive Backup Systems

[jeremyroberts]

PS -- if my backup methods sound like rants, once you've blown $4000 on data recovery, and more importantly your reputation with your client(s), you will never lose a single byte again. Backup early, often, and yes, your studio will probably burn down at some point, so keep a copy of anything you value somewhere else. And yes, backup media will fail. 2 copies is not enough. You need 3 of anything you consider important since you must expect your backup to be corrupted, or something else that you didn't foresee. The data knows when it's backed up or not and when it isn't it conspires with the hardware to fail. Thinking about backups and not doing it is a sure-thing that your drive will fail within the next 48 hours. </rant>

[drenkrom]

Amen to that, Jeremy. I should put that post as a wallpaper on some people here's computers.