the best way to backup

[RCBH928]

i am trying to move my files to an external hard drive, but the thing i understand is that hard drives fail and i am not ready to use my data

what is the best way to deal with this , do people buy 2 hard drives and keep one was a copy?

if i. had bluray drive i would burn the data to them but i got no bluray drive
and dvd can,t carry so much video on 4.7gb

its sad but true, there was a time when 4.7gb were superb capacity, am getting old

[Opa Opa]

If you don't want to risk a hard drive failure you could just keep all of your files burned on discs.

Edit: What kind of drives do you have on your pc? DVD, CD, Floppy?

[benderx]

try dual layer dvd

[Hatta]

Yes, keeping an external hard drive and mirroring it on a regular basis is the best way to back up. Best to store the backup off site if it's anything really important. (what if there were a fire?).

[Dakinggamer87]

Yes, keeping an external hard drive and mirroring it on a regular basis is the best way to back up.

This is what I do weekly or once a month to keep data backed up regularly.

[CRTGAMER]

Bears repeating to avoid all this repeating. Five pages worth.
The older post with already discussed methods of backing up.

Jump you here for my earlier response.
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 69#p301769

For that large amount of video, maybe break it up into DVD-Rs or a second but more volatile hard drive.

[ChuChu Flamingo]

It's all about the fault tolerance. Having two/three backups is essential in my opinion. One backup would be a external hard drive, another backup would be DVD's. Just keep in mind that burned DVD's can become coasters due to disk rot over the years.

[Ivo]

Currently what I do is I use Macrium Reflect Free (the free version of the program) to clone an image into one external drive every other week, and to another external drive every other week alternating. But I only "clone" my main HDD which is like 200 GB worth of data, hence I can do it to my two 320 GB externals without issues.

Ivo.

[RCBH928]

What is disk rot?
I got a pirated cd game for psx that i got 13 years ago, and it was forgotten about in some boxs or trash, still worked?

I guess I will backup to one drive, and then to DL dvds
i think 3 hdd are too much