Back Up alternatives

2019 status

Family iMac has 2 WD-MyBook drives

• one as external storage - family videos, movie files
• one as BackUp, including the external-storage

CrashPlan for Online BackUp of the iMac

My laptop has iOmega which I back it up to weekly.

2005 notes?

I've been burned in the past, it's only a matter of time. Floppies are obsolete. What to do?

My laptop isn't huge, only total of 6Gb in 2 partitions.

Criteria:

• USB interface (simpler than dealing with the extension module to hit the other ports) (hmmm, does my machine handle USB v2?)
• can attack/unattach without restarting
• supports copying standard files, not just closed archive format
• software to mirror partition, plus ability to just backup a given folder

Possibilities:

• iPod, other mp3 disks
  • Archos AV340 mp3/video, 40Gb, $560
  • eDigital Odyssey
• http://maxtor.com/en/products/external/personal_storage_5000/personal_storage_5000le/index.htm $200 for 80MB
• http://www.smartdisk.com/ http://store.yahoo.com/smartdiskstore/usb20hardriv.html 80Gb/$200
• Universal Buslink 80Gb/$170
• http://www.pocketec.net/catalog.taf?f=products&cat=PHD 40Gb, $269
• http://www.micro-solutions.com backpack
• http://www.simpletech.com/ 60Gb/$400
• http://www.ezq.com/

Online Storage for Back Up

• Tarsnap http://www.tarsnap.com/