Secure Backups - what do you use?

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I am just starting out and I have downloaded lightroom and have started to transfere images to pc - Now its painfully obvious I need a faster pc with plenty more ram and a bit more grunt on the chip - what I also need is a reliable storage solution - I am looking at a DROBO anyone use one of these? your thoughts on this or any other secure storage:)

When I say secure - I mean it will not loose data should 1 disc die in the array.
 
an iomega sharecentre and another 1tb hdd that gets a third back up on it and stashed elsewhere every so often

oh and the files on my hdd that get cleared every so often when they're redundant :)
 
Two Iomega 500gb HDDs...when i remember:lol:
 
Apple Time Capsule for OS and working images onsite backup, Mozy for OS and working images offsite backup.

LaCie Network space for archive images onsite backup and a fleet of LaCie Rugged drive for offsite archive backup.
 
Time Capsule for hourly backups
NAS in the loft of the house for All Data
NAS in the detached garage synced with NAS in the house daily for Critical Data

500GB USB drive TrueCrypted with Critical Data kept in the fridge and updated when I have something really important.

Live Mesh & MobileMe for critical documents but not images one folder sits inside the other making it automatically update all sites :)

Short of a Gas explosion taking out the street, my data's reasonably secure, and it's pretty much all automatic too.
 
Blimey - You goys are belt and braces and a bit of rope!! you lot will never be caught with your pants down:lol:

I have decided on the single 1 TB drive setup with another of a different make to back it up in 2 esata external boxes for now - Now to build my ideal edit pc:)

Thanks for the insight and replies

I see DROBO is not without issues:cuckoo: so I will not be going their for a 1 box solution - I think backup the backup is the key:thumbs:
 
I work in IT but have chosen the simple manual approach...

I have 4 1TB drives in an external bay ( Icydock )
I use the Windows Synctoy tool (free) to 'Sync' ( actually contribute' ) to regularly copy my data from master to backup drive.
I have 2 master drives and 2 back up drives.

I am / was using mozy.com to do on-line back up too but after a while it just takes too long to upload the huge amount of data I have so have just bought 2 more external drives which I back up to monthly and keep off site.

Not necessarily the best method but one I am comfortable with.

M.
 
I have a 1TB Spinpoint that all my data is stored on locally. This is robocopied to an external 1TB Nas and I also use Carbonite to trickle backup data as off site storage.
 
Linksys media hub wiht 2x 500gb raid with a IOMEGA 500gb nas to back up the backups. The IOMEGA is stored 'off site'
 
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