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It's World Backup Day!
Mar. 31st, 2012 05:39 pmThey chose March 31 because you'd feel really foolish if your hard drive died tomorrow and you lost everything.
I've always been pretty retentive about backups. I have two 3-TB and one 1-TB USB drives dedicated to backup, one one of the 3-TBs fills up, it goes to the observatory with my wife and the other comes back. It's not ideal, I'd still have partial data loss if the house burned down, but assuming we got out with our lives and our laptops, it shouldn't be much of a problem. I filled my first 3-TB to under 100 before I bought my second.
It's also important to test your backups by doing an occasional restore to make sure they're readable, you might feel even worse if you had a data loss and found your backups were useless.
http://www.worldbackupday.com/
I've always been pretty retentive about backups. I have two 3-TB and one 1-TB USB drives dedicated to backup, one one of the 3-TBs fills up, it goes to the observatory with my wife and the other comes back. It's not ideal, I'd still have partial data loss if the house burned down, but assuming we got out with our lives and our laptops, it shouldn't be much of a problem. I filled my first 3-TB to under 100 before I bought my second.
It's also important to test your backups by doing an occasional restore to make sure they're readable, you might feel even worse if you had a data loss and found your backups were useless.
http://www.worldbackupday.com/
