What is the best backup method?

dm76 said:
Back on this topic again, as far as an external drive, which interface would you recommend? Would you go esata, or would a network connected drive be better that could be stored in another room? Or is USB still fine?
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Of those it makes no functional difference. What you ask is about convenience nothing more.;) Stored in another room? What that room does not catch fire or flood, or blow up? What do you like? Go for it.
 
So I am thinking the storage in three separate locations as some of you mentioned is a good idea. So if one drive is internal and one is external, and then maybe some saved on DVDs as well, would it be a good idea just to make the internal drive RAID? I know RAID is not a backup method, as it would duplicate any corrupt files and such, but even if it did that, I would still have the other drive. Then if one drive went out, I would at least have the other RAID drive duplicated. Is that a good idea, or is it best just to backup the important files to both drives and forget about RAID?
 
get an internal drive. Esata if your board supports. I also have an usb external. with just two internals that will work. ya won't loose both at the time. The external is just portable, thats it. i can load all backups and take it with me. has favorite utilities, 1000's of family pictures, programs and portable.
 
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks 1 setup slows hard drive write times if I am not mistaken thus affecting performance. I would just buy an external hard drive and make backups once every 7 to 10 days.
 
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