A reader asked me what my preferred storage medium for local backups. I would have said I always do HDD but the options only mentioned optical disk drives (DVD, CD-R and CD+RW). My choice would be DVD but I really don’t like to use optical disks as back-up.
In any case, I wanted to throw the same question to my readers and do it via a poll.
What’s your preferred back-up solution at home. I know there are a lot of cloud storage options but let’s limit this one to local solutions.
- Optical Disk Drives
- External HDD
- NAS
- Others
- I don’t do backups
Go hit the comments and share your choices and let me know why.
Twitter: jerichorivera
says:
For work:
Terabyte drives one each for daily, weekly and full monty err.. monthly!
For personal:
USB flash drive, dropbox, home server, I also save some of my files on our corporate linux fileserver just in case.
For offsite backup, burn pictures of your family vacations and other important events on a CD/DVD and send it to your parents or grandparents! That’s simple offsite backup in the cheap!
I have 2 3TBs at home for my movies. I only use 1 3TB for my monthly backup of my laptop files and desktop. I can only consume around 100GB or less for backups
Twitter: decnet
says:
We do use
Optical Disk Drives
External HDD
NAS
Twitter: Ligrev
says:
I burn my files on DVD-R’s.
The evolution of optical drives has always been backwards-compatible. I don’t see it phasing-out in my lifetime.
Contents burned: my personal folders–monthly (i.e. desktop files, music, pictures, videos, downloads); and downloaded movies/series/albums.
DVDs and online through live sync
hdd, wala pa po kasing pera for NAS hehehehe
Twitter: vekou
says:
Floppy disks! Coz I’m so 90′s!!
Personally I use External HDDs, though as an enterprise solution, I prefer NAS. Moving files to the cloud is also a solution though I believe it’s not yet that practical.
I use:
Optical Disk Drives
External HDD
Twitter: iamjimutan
says:
DVD
External Drives
and
ADrive.com for my work backup
I use the following backup strategies:
1. Cloud for documents (small file size)
2. SDHC for pictures.
3. USB Hard disk drive for everything including #1 and #2 above, personal videos, and binaries like software.
Twitter: roiji
says:
optical disks… i don’t trust hdds since they MIGHT get rusted and not run after 30 or so years
1TB HDD for backup
1TB HDD for daily use
and a software for data recovery like Stellar Phoenix
Twitter: kzapkzap
says:
had 1 laptop failure recently and 1 hard drive crash, good thing everything is backed up either on Time Machine on another HD and important files in Jungle Disk (Cloud)
Tried backing up all the pictures/movies in the Cloud but it became too expensive.
Twitter: papatadzRN
says:
i usually back-up FLASH drives and DRAFTS on my email, mostly of my files are docs and pics
I keep a backup of my personal photos, videos and documents on a 16Gb SD card. I use an SD card because it is portable and it has that lock slider on the side. Back then I used to just keep them on the hard drive of my computer, but then, if somehow the computer hdd failed (due to viruses or extreme weather) my files would be lost. I have photos dating back to when I was in second year college.
for backup, i use:
1. 1TB seagate for all files
2. windows skydrive for photos and scanned government documents (birth cert,etc.)
3. mediafire.com for the same as #2, so that if one cloud service fails/goes out of business, iv another cloud storage to access my files
External HDDs ^^
I got this 160gb for around 5 years as of now. Then there’s a bunch of 1TB, 1.5TB for my movies, videos, pictures, documents, and other personal stuff.
I’m planning to get a NAS or a 3TB HDD once I have a budget for it.
2 disk synology for quick backup. For archive, i have a separate server running solaris 11 with 4x2TB disks being used by ZFS.