CraigSca
03-26-2006, 07:00 AM
I just purchased my first home backup software application. Backup - it's probably the least most glamorous thing ever, but it has to be done (though I've been highly negligent myself when it comes to this).
The most important thing we have to backup is my wife's PC - she's the holder of about 8 years of family pictures on her hard drive - and it's been backed up sporadically in the past. After that, it's the irreplaceable data on both our PC's.
My wife has a CD RW, but I have a DVD player that can only read. I'd like to backup everything to a single point, though I realize, at least for my wife, the most cost-effective solution is to have her backup to the CD. Between us, we probably have about 2 GB to backup.
I've thought about buying a wireless hard drive to hook into our wireless network (which is now only used to share our FiOS WAN connection - the PCs on the network can't see each other) and use that for backups, but they're still very pricey at this stage. Another option I've thought about is backing up to my web space - I think I have about 10gig available to me. My concerns there are - how do I make it readable only by me (and not make every picture we have available to the general public)? Speed shouldn't be too much of an issue, we can upload at 2 Mbps - so if we do backups at night, it shouldn't effect anything. The plus is that if there's some kind of fire at the home or something, our data is backed up offsite.
So - what is everyone else doing out there?
The most important thing we have to backup is my wife's PC - she's the holder of about 8 years of family pictures on her hard drive - and it's been backed up sporadically in the past. After that, it's the irreplaceable data on both our PC's.
My wife has a CD RW, but I have a DVD player that can only read. I'd like to backup everything to a single point, though I realize, at least for my wife, the most cost-effective solution is to have her backup to the CD. Between us, we probably have about 2 GB to backup.
I've thought about buying a wireless hard drive to hook into our wireless network (which is now only used to share our FiOS WAN connection - the PCs on the network can't see each other) and use that for backups, but they're still very pricey at this stage. Another option I've thought about is backing up to my web space - I think I have about 10gig available to me. My concerns there are - how do I make it readable only by me (and not make every picture we have available to the general public)? Speed shouldn't be too much of an issue, we can upload at 2 Mbps - so if we do backups at night, it shouldn't effect anything. The plus is that if there's some kind of fire at the home or something, our data is backed up offsite.
So - what is everyone else doing out there?