There are people who do backups, and there are those who have not lost data yet.

I use the 3-2-1 Backup strategy, which is:

• 3 copies of anything I want to keep
• 2 different backup media types
• 1 (at least) offsite storage location

In practice, it looks like this:

Yes, it’s a bit complicated.  If could be less complicated:

• if I used “the cloud” for my backup.
  Cost / limited bandwidth rules that out.
  (I backup 100’s of GB, so the cloud would get expensive fast).
• if I used Windows Home Server.
  The backup software in WHS is image based.
  Image based backups would use Terabytes of space.
  To save space/cost, I’d need a file based backup.

My ideal solution?  Something like a DROBO-like device, which has built in disk encryption.

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