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Community weekly poll: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster?
- 6/27/06 12:13 PM
How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster?
by Marc Bennett - 6/27/06 12:13 PM
How will you retrieve your personal data after an unthinkable disaster?
Online services (please explain)
Safety deposit box at a bank (please explain)
Weatherproof/fireproof safe at home (please explain)
Backup information at someone else's home (please explain)
USB flash drive (please explain)
I'm not prepared at all for a disaster
Other
My Plan (such as it is)
by edbrady - 6/27/06 9:27 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I back up my entire two hard drives every week. I use Acronis Disk Image.
I can revert to any moment in the last year.
And the disks are kept f-a-r away from where I am, so they are safer. (Nothing is ever 100%.)
fireproof safe
by rtsphoto - 6/27/06 9:31 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I backup all my impotant data to usb drive and cd/dvd and keep it in a fireproof safe. i keep important papers in there as well. i keep all my bills, ledgers, and such on usb drive with cd backup not on my hard drive because they crash. i'm more worried about harddrive crashes than fires.
The safe made me prepared for both.
Backups
by Starman35 - 6/28/06 5:15 AM In reply to: fireproof safe by rtsphotoI keep personal info backed up onto 3 different hard drives, and once a year, I make a DVD backup archive. I'm not concerned about fire as much as a major hurricane impact. My house won't flood, but I could be without electricity in the heat & humidity for a month or so after a major storm. Important papers I keep in a steel file cabinet. Its not fireproof either, but it is windproof. I live in a concrete house & don't smoke, so fire is a secondary concern.
Retrieve personal data after a disaster
by septus - 6/27/06 9:32 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Hi Marc,
The subjectively most elegant way I have come across (and use) is by a combination of ''other'' and ''USB'':
1. All personal data, operating system Linux Puppy 2.01, and applications are on a bootable 1.4 gig DVD-R (CD will do too), which can retrieve data also from HD:s (PATA or SATA; NTFS, ext. 3, etc. will do) mini-DVD. If the machine has a DVD ''burner drive'', any retrieved data can just be saved to the same DVD.
OR (if the machine does not have a writeable CD or DVD drive):
2. Boot from same mini CD or DVD as above, mount USB device, access the HD, retrieve data, and transfer to a mounted USB.
Cheers
''septus''
that the way :)
by r061074s - 7/11/06 6:06 AM In reply to: Retrieve personal data after a disaster by septusactualy i backup on Mac OS X external HD witch is Win, Mac Sys bootable, CD copies for 2006 bc no DVDR anymore otherwise DVD & SD per year, in 3 different place, the all lot, fire, watter, electromanetic safer
paranoid !? 
living on a copie made me able to access to everything anywhere
finish the "i'm not home i'll let you know" 
happy to see security make us think
romain
(NT) I'll ask the CIA.......
by Kutusov - 6/27/06 9:36 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I'll Ask My Wife
by RobertMusil - 6/28/06 7:12 AM In reply to: (NT) I'll ask the CIA....... by KutusovSame difference...
How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster?
by pg - 6/27/06 9:41 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I have all paper documents in a safety deposit box with local paper copies in a fire proof safe. All electronic copies are backed up to a RAID 5 server in a remote location.
Mozy is the only way to go....
by alexhouse - 6/27/06 9:55 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I strongly encourage everyone to sign up for Mozy (www.Mozy.com). It's a free online backup system that's automatic. You start with 1 GB of storage space and can get 2 GB pretty easily. The also offer a paid version where you can get substantially more space for not a lot of money. I've been using it for months and I wouldn't live without it. I make weekly data backups to DVD, but that won't help in a situation like Katrina (unless I put them in a safe deposit box). You have nothing to lose but your data....
Mozy is not as good as it looks
by kukaduro - 1/16/08 2:06 PM In reply to: Mozy is the only way to go.... by alexhouseI enthusiastically signed up for Mozy yesterday. Prepaid the two years (very reasonable) fee and started uploading 200 GB worth of my photographs. Guess what? It would take a year and a half to complete this task. The average upload speed is ~20 kb/s. Their customer service remotely logged into my Mac Pro (Leopard OS) but found no problem. I tested the Comcast upload speed. It is 2000 kb/s. I sent Mozy an email requesting refund and cancellation. Let's see what happens.
It's a shame. They offer the best rates, nice people but not up to what they advertise...... or they want to eliminate customers who try to take advantage of the unlimited space.
Maybe the problem is elsewhere........
by weatherman109 - 1/22/08 10:28 PM In reply to: Mozy is not as good as it looks by kukaduroI backup from Australia and can upload 200-300Mb in 2-3hrs
Mozy is NOT the way to go.
by johnsonridge - 5/26/08 9:27 AM In reply to: Mozy is the only way to go.... by alexhouseYes, Mozy is free. But, even with the paid version, the backups work sporadically with server errors, connection errors, etc. That MIGHT be OK if the technical support was responsive but it is not. I recommend going with your own virtual server backup or with something like Amazon S3 or JungleDisk.
Personal data backup in depth
by rhansen - 6/27/06 10:38 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
Your survey is defective because it doesn't allow for multiple backup methods.
Full backups to 2 different USB drives on 2 different machines
Burn off full backups to CD-R & DVD which are stored off site
Paper printouts of most critical data (less then 1% - 50 pages)
I'm also considering storing the most critical data as an encrypted archive (most of this is relatively static) in my "personal storage" space provided by my cable modem service provider.
too expensive
by laptopadvisor - 6/27/06 11:04 PM In reply to: How will you retrieve your personal data after a disaster? by Marc Bennett
I have a 1 TB (4x250GB) striping raid. Its about 90% full - I do video editing and other digital content creation For me its way too expensive to buy backup storage. I bought a 120GB hard drive and back stuff up to that but it can only hold so much. DVDs are soooo small, I often have files over 15GB that I can only backup by ripping to minidv tapes which is slow and painful. The bad part is that I'm in college so I'm carting my comp off to adn from dorms all the time so its in risk of damage from other stuff besides floods. The problem w/ internet backups is ISPs. They are just dumb because you can't buy decent upload speed unless you pay over $150/month. so even if there were viable internet sites for large backups it would be impracticle for anythign over a few hundred MB. If I had money I would setup a server at a freinds house and just back my stuff up to it every so often...but then the upload speed is so brutal it would be a waste of time
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