Thanks for the reply, Fred.
I've thought of doing what you're doing but I don't really want to
have another computer (file server) running all the time, if I can
avoid it. If I'm understanding correctly.
Appreciate that I can still recover most of what I've lost from usenet
but it still is a lot of time to spend to do it, making me realize how
important backing up is at this point. Used to think, well if I lose
things, it's not a big deal, certainly not going to pay for data
recovery, but of course that was before it happened.
On 02 Mar 2016 07:05:03 GMT, "fred-bloggs"
<fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:24:18 GMT, Free Agent <freeagent@nospam.com> wrote
>
>> I'm losing my second Seagate Expansion drive in under a year and want
>> to rethink my options.
>>
>
><snippage>
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>>
>> Am curious how others are storing their videos and what sort of backup
>> systems are being used.
>
>I use Synology NASs (not in RAID) as short term, offline backup. Long term
>backup is on DVD/BDR. I keep a catalog (titles,size,location) of local
>drives, NASs and DVDs in case of failures.
>
>Hard drives fail.
>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
>
>DVDs fail, less often, verify discs when writing.
>
>Usenet is good for backup for the last 7 years ;-)
>http://www.nzbking.com/poster/freeagent%40home.com%20%28Free%20Agent%29/
>as long as you have multiple, maximum retention providers on different
>backbones.
>
>Just my 2c.
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