I would like to hear about how this group handles backing up your data

[G+_Mike Buchanan]

I would like to hear about how this group handles backing up your data.  My issue is this.  I have about 300 GB of software, movies, music and files to keep backed up [currently on a WHS].  I currently use carbonite however beyond backing up documents, this option is really not practical because trying to backup movies and software carbonite begins to throttle my uploads and frankly it takes way to long to back that stuff up.  I also use an external drive as a 3rd copy however I like the idea of having all of my data in the cloud for easy access but I am also concerned about data security since I would be backing up financial documents and tax documents.  I was curious as to how this group handles backups.  I have looked at Amazon S3 and Glacier.

[G+_Eng. Jorge Santana]

I have 3T in 3 drives but what I have done is move the really important things Online and most of the new stuff I get is either streaming or on a cloud services that I can access later. Future is the cloud for me...

[G+_Mike Buchanan]

I agree.  One nice feature of the WHS is that I can access it remoely but I still struggle with backing up all of my software.  Also keeping my documents secure in on-line also concerns me.  

[G+_Christophe De Langhe]

I user SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) to make an exact (bootable!) copy of my internal drive to an external esata drive.

Then I have an NAS with RAID5 (for movies, pictures, music, documents, ...). No backup needed since there is full protection due to the RAID5.

[G+_Richard Shortland]

For my music collection I use Google Play Music which allows me to store up to 20,000 tracks in the cloud.  For my documents and important pictures I use Ubuntu One.

[G+_Mike Buchanan]

Richard Shortland I agree, I use Amazon cloud to keep my music since most of the music I purchase is through Amazon. I looked into the new Amazon Glacier data storage option and this may work for me. I can store 300 G for $3 per month which I think is a great price.

[G+_Mike Sweeney]

Time Machine, Disk Cloning and a 3TB disk that gets the day's deltas copied off to it every day. I  used online back ups for 3 years but in the end, it's too much trouble on the uploading side with the very large  files we have now with HD movies, podcasts, 7 GB ISOs and more.

I use drop box for small files that I need access to regardless of where I am and I use Evernote to put notes/papers/scans etc into the cloud for access.

[G+_Michael Sorg]

Drobos for local redundancy and all backed up to Backblaze since they allow external backups. I have a few TBs of stuff up there. I edit video for podcasts and clients, so the hardest part is keeping up in adding drives.

[G+_Jagannath Moorthy]

My setup involves two laptops, a NAS (WD My book Live) and 2 hard drives and Microsoft Sync Toy. I run my sync toy folder pairs once a week to keep the two laptops and NAS in sync. I also have folder pairs set up for the external hard drives which I run around once a month. One of the hard drives is always at my brother's house which is in another city.

 

The above setup is primarily for photos, videos and music and older documents. For the past couple of years, any documents I have created has been saved to my Dropbox folder so that it is always in sync.