[SWLUG] Best Bacup storage what do you think?

[David Goodwin]

Emmanuel Durand wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> My question is not directly about linux, but may be of interest for 
> everybody.
> 
> Following Peter's question on backup and disc image, my question is what 
> is the best backup storage for the home?
> Cds are probably too small, DVDs are a bit better, but may become too 
> small, external hard drive could be good, but it is still a hard drive, 
> and can become corrupted. Tape drives are too expensive for the average 
> home user. What do you all think?
> 

http://www.crashplan.com/ may be of some use, although probably only for 
limited amounts of data (i.e. documents and stuff), it might be a bit 
painful backing up a mp3/video collection using it, for example.

David.
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