Online-Backup

what is a password key? . I don’t have much in the way of digital music, about 15 gigs of EDM and another 5 of other genres, simply backed up onto a portable hard drive. I have a free drop box account, that I signed up for to pass of some tracks for a friends set. But i haven’t used them as a back up solution. When I get all my vinyl digitized and re-collected , then I may initiate other solutions. I did not know that about the reliability of portable hard drives breaking down. I have one 320 GB h.d. that I used to use as my time capsule, I’ve had it for 2+ years, with no issues. However I recently bought a 1.5 TB hard drive to replace it. My macbook is full to the brim, (160 gb) And I have about 250 gigs of movies. I have a site hosted at angelfire.com for a graphic design side business I’ve been trying to get off the ground (freesolodesign.com). I have some important pictures backed up there. I think the total space I have available is only 20 gigs there, but it’s plenty for what how the site will be set up..as a one page portfolio with an image viewer. Back on topic, sorry.. :-p. Wouldn’t one time payments of a handful of portable hard drives, say at 2 TB save more time and money in the long run?

GerdB, post: 15012, member: 1387 wrote: Well, maybe its paranoia because of my job, we have ususally backups of important data on 3 different physical places.
And the easiest way to have a backup somewhere else without carrying harddrives to your friends places once a week/month, is to put it online. And usually all online providers store the data redundant on different hard drives, so a crash of one or even two harddrives do not put your data in harm.
And losing my music collection e.g. in a house fire would hurt as much as losing my home. (I put a lot of effort and time to build it. Well, my vinyl would be gone in a fire, however.
Its also maybe because of my age, I am still not used to the thought that all the music is still out there on the internet, and can be re-collected again if necessary. So for me, the feeling of safety is worth a few bucks.

Yeah , I think I seriously would not be able to face society if my vinyl collection burned in a fire. I understand, I’ve been trying to digitize the portions of my vinyl that I can’t get online. It’s harder than I thought tryna track it down on the net. I wish there were a way to protect the wax , like there’s a way to protect the digital files lol

I personally just have itunes pull all of my music from one folder (no subfolders) that I back up to an external harddrive once a week.

This is simple, but works for me.