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copied!<p>These are interesting times for "the personal backup question".</p> <p>There are several schools of thought now:</p> <ol> <li><p>Frequent Automated Local Backup + Periodic Local Manual Backup</p> <blockquote> <p>Automated: Scheduled Nightly backup to external drive.<br> Manual: Copy to second external drive once per week / month / year / <em>oops-forgot</em><br> and drop it of at "Mom's house".<br>  <br> Lot's of software in the field, but here's a few: There's RSync and TimeMachine on Mac, and DeltaCopy www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp for Windows.</p> </blockquote></li> <li><p>Frequent Remote Backup</p> <blockquote> <p>There are a pile of services that enable you to backup across you internet connection to a remote data centre. <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amazon</a>'s S3 service + JungleDisk's client software is a strong choice these days - not the cheapest option, but you pay for what you use and Amazon's track record suggests as a company it will be in business as long or longer than any other storage providers who hang their shingle today.<br>  <br> Did I mention it should be encrypted? Props to JungleDisk for handling the "encryption issue" and future-proofing (open source library to interoperate with Jungle Disk) pretty well.</p> </blockquote></li> <li><p>All of the above.</p> <blockquote> <p>Some people call it being paranoid ... others think to themselves "Ahhh, I can sleep at night now".</p> </blockquote></li> </ol> <hr> <p>Also, it's more fault-tolerance than backup, but you should check out <a href="http://www.drobo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Drobo</a> - basically it's dead simple RAID that seems to work quite well.</p>

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