There are a lot of household tasks that I'm not very good at. Especially the menial ones. But there is one I am almost religious about. I frequently download our photos off the digital camera. I get nervous if I leave photos on there for very long.
But then I go beyond that. It's a little sad. I run my own manual RAID 1 array.
Leave it to me to have a filthy house but redundant copies of our photos on separate drives.
I've got big dreams. Someday, M says he'll set us up a RAID 5 array in his half of our closet next to the DSL router and (someday) house-wide Gigabit ethernet switch. A girl can dream can't she? (All that and I don't even have to sacrifice space in my
Even that's not ideal. I need to be better about uploading photos to an external site to protect against any real catastrophes. I used to be good about doing that, but it dropped off when kid #2 came along.
Dang it!!! Now that I've reminded myself about this, we won't have clean clothes for a month while I remedy the situation. This is all your fault...
I think that this solution may be what you're looking for. It automatically redundancizes itself for you and if one hard drive dies the others still have your precious photos:
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Also:
http://www.eye.fi/
OMG ever since I got this I wonder how I ever lived without it. It's a memory card you put in your camera, and when it detects a wireless internet connection, will upload the photos to a designated place on your computer. AMAZING.
my blog is my external site if nothing else. I know you don't post that on yours though. Carbonite is a good one, but they only back up from your computer, not externals.
ReplyDeleteI back to my externals and also burn discs every few months. Too many people have lost things, gotta keep up with it. I do media better than house stuff, too:)
LOL! hahaha! And to think that I get excited to go home and get AWAY from the RAID world.
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