Backing up

[shitoken]

Thoughts of backing up my HS Disk,  it worth more than anything I did seriously in my life. hehe

1)How do you guys back up your hyperspin drive?

2)What is the size of your Hyperspin drive?

3)Will you buy the same size drive and just copy the whole image?

4) Backing up to NAS and mirror it on RAID so you can have more than two drives?

5)Where will you keep the backup drive? in the bank, under the pillow or dig a hole and bury it?

The day I joined I have bought a 2TB drive within less than half year,  I need expand so I bought another 4TB drive to transfer all the files. Finally end of 2015 I bought another 6TB drive what the heck ,  Now I am planning to get 2 x 10TB-  1 for back purpose.

Dont know what to do with the others. Maybe store some porno's, etc

 

 

[Metalzoic]

I bought a 2tb Seagate backup drive. It plugs in via USB and once a month or everytime I make big changes I will run a backup (I don't have it auto-backup). When i run a backup I backup everything on the PC except MAME roms/CHDs (Those can always just be re-downloaded). I always leave the backup drive plugged in, I never unplug it since it's buried in my cab. 

 

I don't recommend the Seagate backup drive as the software for it is terrible, it backs up slow and it does a bad job of letting you know where it is at in the process. There have been several times I restarted after 10+ hours of it backing up because I couldn't even tell if it was running, but it was. I've never had to restore anything from a backup on it so I really have no faith that it will even work or that it will restore everything needed.

[shitoken]

10 hours ago, Metalzoic said:

I bought a 2tb Seagate backup drive. It plugs in via USB and once a month or everytime I make big changes I will run a backup (I don't have it auto-backup). When i run a backup I backup everything on the PC except MAME roms/CHDs (Those can always just be re-downloaded). I always leave the backup drive plugged in, I never unplug it since it's buried in my cab. 

 

I don't recommend the Seagate backup drive as the software for it is terrible, it backs up slow and it does a bad job of letting you know where it is at in the process. There have been several times I restarted after 10+ hours of it backing up because I couldn't even tell if it was running, but it was. I've never had to restore anything from a backup on it so I really have no faith that it will even work or that it will restore everything needed.

I never liked Seagate drives they have poor performance and short life in my past experience.

I prefer Hitachi Drives the best but seems they have changed the brand or something. Now I am using only WD NAS drives because they are produced for longer spin life time but little slow.

[Styphelus]

I have 3 2TB WD Blue internal drives that use with a Hard Drive Dock (my Hard drive dock is old and only supports 2TB drives). I just copy everything over to these drives. it's tedious and it takes forever but you only have to do it once for the roms. One of the drives contains all the artwork folders so that one gets updated once in a while.

[justinwebb]

I have a custom built server with 45tb in the basement, its all redundant so if a drive dies it can be replaced with no data loss.  Houses my movie collection, all pc backups once a day, file storage and hyperspin.

[shitoken]

11 hours ago, Styphelus said:

I have 3 2TB WD Blue internal drives that use with a Hard Drive Dock (my Hard drive dock is old and only supports 2TB drives). I just copy everything over to these drives. it's tedious and it takes forever but you only have to do it once for the roms. One of the drives contains all the artwork folders so that one gets updated once in a while.

That means you keep the setup on one drive and roms, games on another drive.

Is a good idea.

[shitoken]

10 hours ago, justinwebb said:

I have a custom built server with 45tb in the basement, its all redundant so if a drive dies it can be replaced with no data loss.  Houses my movie collection, all pc backups once a day, file storage and hyperspin.

I have old model QNAP NAS as well for PC backing up purpose once a week , although I use LAN network all around my house. But still find it slow  and takes 1 day to finish transferring 600GB files . Maybe you keep your NAS on all the time.  I have pigeons so would turn everything off before going work.