Redundant Backups
I seem to have developed a quadruple redundant backup system, without realising it. Any files that I frequently access from different places are stored in Dropbox, which, obviously, has an off site backup. Reference materials and scans of pretty much all paperwork are stored in Evernote, which, again, has an offsite backup. Everything is backed up locally with Time Machine (Which recently saved my entire iTunes and iPhoto libraries when I accidentally wiped them). And everything important (including the Evernote and Dropbox data) is backed up again, off-site, with Mozy.
Slightly over the top, perhaps. But, it wasn’t really intentional. After I lost my iPhoto and iTunes libraries, and recovered them off my Time Machine, I decided to add an extra level with Mozy, just in case anything happens to my Time Machine drive. Which isn’t unheard of - I lost an external drive myself not long ago. It took 6 hours and rsync to try and recover the 380Gb of data on it, and I only got about 80% off, before it failed completely.
The only think I don’t have backed up are my DVD rips of my movies and TV shows, but uploading terabytes of data to Mozy would be silly, and would take over six months. Besides, by their nature of being rips, I have the majority of the original discs in a cupboard somewhere.
