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Originally Posted by kutulu
Since this is a storage topic, what do you guys do to protect your data? Right now, I have plenty of free space to backup my important things but in the event of a fire or break in, I have no protection. I used to think that a fire safe might work but it would get hot enough to seriously damage the stuff.
I was thinking the only way to really be safe would be to buy a separate set of HDDs and store them in a safe place away from home and update them every few months. Is there anything that really works better if you are talking about backing up 2TB+ of data?
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For family photos, everything historical is backed up on an external drive at four other family member's locations, and everything new is uploaded to Picasa.
For music, I have enlisted two of my friends to be my off-site backups---they bought 2tb drives that I regularly borrow and refresh as I get additional content, on the condition that they are not allowed to delete any of it.
Movies/TV, I don't care enough about to back up other than internally to the server so I'm safe from a drive failure. In case of fire/theft, I'm not going to care that I have to go out and reacquire "The Wire" and Pineapple Express.