The Annual Backup Extravaganza
Okay, I really should do this more often but with the 2 kids, all my time online is spent enjoying my time, not staring at stuff being transferred from my laptop to HD, etc etc… So one afternoon on some year, I’ll distract the kids and get everything on my computer backed up on various mediums.
This time, I got a bunch of recordable media, the Taiyo Yuden DVD-R set of 5, if I remember correctly, and the Taiyo Yuden CD-R set of 10, cos Taiyo Yuden is supposed to be the best, and prepped all my portable HDs.
First copied the photos over to the CD-Rs so I can file them properly and then copied another version to the mini portable (to grab in case of fire), then the videos to DVD-R and another set to the mini portable (to grab in case of fire), and then misc files to the CD-Rs, and everything to the large portable. So in case the DVDs and CDs fail and/or the HDs, one of them should still work. And if both…
Dang I need to get online storage!
Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
Posted on September 20, 2009 at 1:51 am
Sigh… that reminds me, I better go backup everything now.