[GTALUG] Backups for files

[Alvin Starr]

How about a few USB flash drives.
They are relatively cheap and if your concerned about failure it should
be possible to copy the data twice.

There are also a few archive formats that support repair of missing
data  but I am not sure how well they would do with losing a significant
portion of the data.

I wonder if something like par2 would fit the requirements.



On 11/05/2015 11:14 AM, Digiital aka David wrote:
> No question go for Harddrive. BUT don't put your trust on just one
> drive either. The power up and power down puts a lot of strain on the
> drive, you are just better to leave the drive on all the time. Better
> option would be a NAS with RAID setup. 
>
> I have had a few drives gone belly up, lucky I had them setup as RAID
> and had a backup of the backup. 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin at ve3syb.ca
> <mailto:kevin at ve3syb.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On 15-11-03 03:59 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
>
>         Looking at backing up a little less than 300 GB of files. Want
>         to do
>         one copy to 25 GB Bluray discs.
>
>
>     I don't trust CDs and DVDs for backup. I don't think I would trust
>     Bluray either. I have had discs go bad on me over time. For that
>     much data I would use an external hard drive.
>
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