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11/9/12 at 9:47am
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Woops meant to link to this.
Yeah i just wanted to get an idea if i could save space for backup

I compress mine with Handbrake on the AppleTV 2 setting. They're not full 1080p--I see a difference in resolution but it's hardly noticeable. It's still really good, and it streams much better to my tv. I'm okay with the tradeoff on resolution with the huge file size difference. Most of mine will land around the 1.5 - 2 Gb size.
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11/19/12 at 8:39am
hi! i'm new to backing things up biggrin.gif

currently i have mirrored (with free file sync) all the data into a pc i use as media center, so it serves those two purposes. But now with all this apocalypse stuff, 3 days of shadows and magnetic disturbances, i want to backup to an optic. Well, truth is i got a bluray writer on a deal, so i want to backup anyway biggrin.gif

Thing is, i have 25gb discs, and the data to backup is over 25 gb, my questions is:

- What's the best way to deal with the 25gb cap?
Maybe i can use an application like acronis and make single backup divided in mutiple files, and with added compression.
I kind of want the backup to be kind of accesible, so i don't have to install a full app suite to access it, or to recover some specific files. Can the free version of acronis recover specific files?

Should i just divide the data by myself? anyone else backing up to bluray??

regards


edit: ended filling only two blurays so i just copied them as a normal data disc. biggrin.gif
Edited by webtax - 11/23/12 at 5:12pm
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11/28/12 at 5:47pm
I just read through you Back up Data guide. Nice Job. However I was looking for more specific advise.

I currently only back up things like photoshop drawings and pictures which I manually back up onto a external hard drive every so often. However the external harddrive is old but portable. My question is, now I am moving to a much larger case (SM8 caselabs) and I have the room to add more drives. I currently Use a 128gb intel 510 for my OS and a couple of games. My 500GB blue WD drive hosts my pictures music etc. I recently got married... traveled to many places, and have some priceless family photos that I can not do without. What would you recommend? I would like to have a clear plan for when I move to windows 8 along with my build improvments that I will be doing next week once my case comes. I am open to buying a larger disk drive and possibly another SSD depending on cost.
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I just read through you Back up Data guide. Nice Job. However I was looking for more specific advise.

I currently only back up things like photoshop drawings and pictures which I manually back up onto a external hard drive every so often. However the external harddrive is old but portable. My question is, now I am moving to a much larger case (SM8 caselabs) and I have the room to add more drives. I currently Use a 128gb intel 510 for my OS and a couple of games. My 500GB blue WD drive hosts my pictures music etc. I recently got married... traveled to many places, and have some priceless family photos that I can not do without. What would you recommend? I would like to have a clear plan for when I move to windows 8 along with my build improvments that I will be doing next week once my case comes. I am open to buying a larger disk drive and possibly another SSD depending on cost.
Personally, if you have a lot of stuff you don't want to loose, I would create a RAID 5 (3 2TB or 3TB drives, or if you don't need that much space, go with 3 1TB drives. Will give you 2TB usable) to store your data on (and have your user folder contents remapped to to the RAID as well). Then setup some kind of backup using software (maybe Sean can expand on this) and back up the REALLY important stuff to an external.


RAID5 is not a 100% fool proof, but it is definitely much better than having just a single drive.
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11/29/12 at 9:15am
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Personally, if you have a lot of stuff you don't want to loose, I would create a RAID 5 (3 2TB or 3TB drives, or if you don't need that much space, go with 3 1TB drives. Will give you 2TB usable) to store your data on (and have your user folder contents remapped to to the RAID as well). Then setup some kind of backup using software (maybe Sean can expand on this) and back up the REALLY important stuff to an external.
RAID5 is not a 100% fool proof, but it is definitely much better than having just a single drive.

I was thinking of maybe using 128gb as OS let I do have a 1TB for files etc... And have a additional drive that backs up just my important files and another drive that backs up the whole system? Any thoughts? Not really sure how to do it but right now I just manually back up my important files
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Personally, if you have a lot of stuff you don't want to loose, I would create a RAID 5 (3 2TB or 3TB drives, or if you don't need that much space, go with 3 1TB drives. Will give you 2TB usable) to store your data on (and have your user folder contents remapped to to the RAID as well). Then setup some kind of backup using software (maybe Sean can expand on this) and back up the REALLY important stuff to an external.
RAID5 is not a 100% fool proof, but it is definitely much better than having just a single drive.

I was thinking of maybe using 128gb as OS let I do have a 1TB for files etc... And have a additional drive that backs up just my important files and another drive that backs up the whole system? Any thoughts? Not really sure how to do it but right now I just manually back up my important files

Have that extra drive you have for backup backup the entire system. The probability of 2 drives failing at the same time is low. So if you have a 128GB SSD + 1TB data drive. Then get a 2TB for backing up and using something like Acronis to backup the data to that 2TB drive. Then this way, even if your 1TB fails, you have everything on your 2TB and you can easily restore from it.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to keep your backup drives identical to simplify it? I've just noticed things get much more complex once you start doing different things for different backup drives. I would also add a couple additional portable drives to store in a safe. Likelihood of two drives failing is lower than one, but the probability of accidentally damaging your portable backup drive is good too. I personally keep three additional backup drives in a fireproof safe. One backs up as often as my portable, one backs up once every two weeks, and the third backs up every few months. This way I have a safely stored backup of everything that is current. You wouldn't believe how often files get corrupted and the corrupted files get backed up (maybe it's just me). My two week back up has saved me several times because of this. My third back up is just in case because I'm anal.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to keep your backup drives identical to simplify it? I've just noticed things get much more complex once you start doing different things for different backup drives. I would also add a couple additional portable drives to store in a safe. Likelihood of two drives failing is lower than one, but the probability of accidentally damaging your portable backup drive is good too. I personally keep three additional backup drives in a fireproof safe. One backs up as often as my portable, one backs up once every two weeks, and the third backs up every few months. This way I have a safely stored backup of everything that is current. You wouldn't believe how often files get corrupted and the corrupted files get backed up (maybe it's just me). My two week back up has saved me several times because of this. My third back up is just in case because I'm anal.

i was thinking of doing what the posted before you suggested just getting a large 2tb and back up every. But also keep my spare 1TB and back up just the pictures internally again. Also I have a 750gb portable that I put most important stuff on as well. Not quite sure how to set up a internal backup of certain files.
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12/6/12 at 5:39pm
How do you mean? Wouldn't just adding an additional internal drive solve that?
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12/11/12 at 12:29pm
What options do I have for creating an image of my SSD? I just tried the Windows Backup and Restore option - it worked quite well but it doesn't keep the image in one neat file, rather all over the place on my drive. Is there a program I can use from within Windows that I can schedule to image the whole drive?
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