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My motto, more or less: "If your friends don't laugh at you about it, your backup strategy is insufficient."
Mine:
Files reside (obviously) on computer's internal drive and attached storage.
Since I use Mac OS X I use Time Machine to made a full incremental backup over the local network to a server in another room at our location every hour.
Once per day, a different backup application updates a separate backup to a set of attached drives. The backup of the main internal drive is itself bootable in case I need to get up and running quickly.
Once per week we update an offsite set of drives that is stored several miles away. (If the hole from the meteor is not more than a mile or so wide, one should survive.)
When I travel I carry a portable drive will copies of all of my Photoshop files.
I update EVERYTHING, not just user files. I need to be able to completely restore my entire working environment.
Oh, all drives are encrypted.
With the exception of handling the offsite physical drives, this all happens automatically — it basically takes no effort from me at all once it is set up.
Yeah, paranoid. But if you have ever lost important files you will be, too. (My last catastrophic loss was decades ago, but that was enough to train me.)
Dan
JohanEickmeyer wrote:
I thought I was the only person keeping backups like a cat pooping in the woods. I keep three off-site backups: one at the bank in a deposit box, one in my truck, and one in the woods on publicly protected lands. The ones in my truck and in the woods are 128 bit encrypted, so no worries if lost or stolen. And it's not like I really care that much about someone stealing my sources photo files. Props to them if they wish to try breaking 128 bit encryption for some images.
Good call on the container though. I keep the glass jar in a plastic bag and it stays dry and clean, but plastic would be better as pointed out. ...Show more →
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