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[mechman]

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[RichardM]

Not for business just personal stuff. I've just finished backing up all our photos, letters etc on to two different hard drives. They just sit in a cupboard until needed. Usually do it every year when I'm bored at Christmas!
If it's a mechanical / circuit board issue with the drive, could you not swap over the disk to another (same make etc) drive?

 

[WorkshopChris]

They just sit in a cupboard until needed.

In an ideal world they should be in different locations to each other, to reduce the chance of loss.

 

[gaz1]

So can stuff in your house, belt and braces use both, unless you move your backup to another location away from your property then your backup isn't safe

Fire, lightening strike, flood, theft are all risks as are mechanical failure of your extra drive

no offense its a lot safer than being left on the original drive where its died

Not for business just personal stuff. I've just finished backing up all our photos, letters etc on to two different hard drives. They just sit in a cupboard until needed. Usually do it every year when I'm bored at Christmas!
If it's a mechanical / circuit board issue with the drive, could you not swap over the disk to another (same make etc) drive?

im still doing my back ups got that much over the years, but im not doing just photo and video backups