Henry Newman has a basic overview of the issues with data preservation in an increasingly all-digital world, but the title of his essay — Rock Don’t Need to Be Backed Up — gives me the hives, because it is transparently wrong. Newman opens his essay by explaining the origins of the title he chose, My…
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I’m a big fan of online backup of critical data — I use Amazon S3 to back up the 300gb or so of personal files I couldn’t bear to lose — but as these sort of sites proliferate, you have to be careful to pick one that’s going to be around for awhile. Case in…
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Personally, this is why I run my own web services using open source packages rather than trust free services for long-term storage of information (short-term usage is inevitable, but get that stuff off and onto a server you control and ensure it can be backed up ASAP). The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all of…
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Charles Stross writes about a problem near and dear to my heart — data preservation. Stross starts off by mentioning this Observer article by British Library head Lynne Brindley, but Brindley annoys with material like this, The 2000 Sydney Olympics was the first truly online games with more 150 websites, but these sites disappeared overnight…
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Here’s Western Digital’s press release announcing the launch of their 2TB hard drive, “While some in the industry wondered if the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive, already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher, serving demand from video applications and expanding consumer media…
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I really like to back up data to optical media, and as the volume of data I back up continues to increase, I would love to back up to 25gb Blu-ray discs rather than 4.2gb DVD discs. But Blu-ray media is still far more expensive than DVD media and the obvious question is “why?” The…
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Photojojo is usually a pretty interesting photo-related site/blog, but they had me shaking their head with their effusive recommendation of Backblaze for computer backup, Backblaze is the best online backup tool we’ve ever used. Why we love it: No DVDs, no hard drives to mess with Backups happen invisibly as soon as files are added…
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Okay, I’m a little paranoid about losing data (or as my wife puts it, pain-in-the-ass OCD). So as the data on this server has grown to 20+gigabytes, its been a challenge figuring out how to back it up in case of a failure at the data center, and also how to capture regular snapshots. The…
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A number of tech hardware sites are reporting that Western Digital may release its 2TB this week with prices running in the $225-$250 range. Suddenly the 10TBs I’ve stuffed into my basement server is seeming inadequate.
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David Pogue apparently had some problems recovering data from some DVDs he burned a few years ago and is all up in arms at the apparently short life span of DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs, Jeez Louise. A conference organizer asked if I could put together a DVD loop of my funniest Web videos, to play in…