[Gllug] Viable back-up solutions for gigabytes?

[adam at thebowery.co.uk]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 05:59:02PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> Ideas?  Is tape still the way to go, or should I be better off looking
> at DVD{+,-}{R,RW}?

I use DVDs at home atm, can be a bit of a pain now that my photos are taking
up over 10 gigs. Dual layer burners have just arrived and can put 9 gigs of
data on each blank (but the blanks are currently about 4 quid each!) normal
blanks are somewhere between 6-10 quid for 25. Just to try and protect against
the short lifespan of the media I tend to burn on alternate brands of discs or
burn 2 copies of the backup to each different brand of media, oh and I take a 
full backup at least once a month, so in the event that all the media over 12
months old starts to fail i will have several copies to attempt recovery from.

I would like to also have a USB2.0 or Firewire external disk drive to
complement the solution, but I can't afford one :)
 
Adam
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