[GTALUG] Backups for files

[Daniel Villarreal]

On 11/05/15 11:14, 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.

While you're at it, I recommend you use a UPS, if you're not using one 
already.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UPS.html
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+you+should+use+a+UPS

Be prepared, see "Murphy's law."

Daniel Villarreal
http://www.youcanlinux.org/

>> Looking at backing up ... 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[...]