Keeping my shit together - Backup and storage options?

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I never really bothered keeping stuff together. I just did what i did and forgot about it. I am in the position now where i am sitting on a small fortunes worth of code / graphics / ebooks etc etc... What can i do to keep it all together and backed up for good? Is dropbox a good idea or do they only give u small storage b4 u have to pay./... just wondering what u guys to to keep shit orgagnised?

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Been manually copying stuff to an external TB drive but think I might try an offline backup service. Anybody got a Dropbox referral link for me? Also SkyDrive offers 25GB free.
 
Dropbox looks cool as hell. I might actually b able to keep my shit backed up for once.
 
+1 for drop box, but that's more for archived code IMHO. If you're actively working on a project check out github.com.
 
I use syncplicity- syncs everything right to my laptops and other desktops as well as keeping it archived. Like an automatic personal subversion.

Cheap as hell, for what you get.
 
Drop box is pretty much the best, but you can always just buy an external hardrive and back your stuff up as well just to be 100% sure. Also dropbox gives you like 1gb for free, which is plenty for just code.
 
I run Acronis backups on 2 drives. One drive I have daily backups and another drive a weekly backup.

I've been meaning to get somethin online though. You guys trust all this dropbox /online storage stuff? I don't mean the actual owners but don't you feel it's a bit risky? I get the concept it's great but all it takes is one fuck up and someone jacks all your shit...maybe I'm just paranoid.
 
LotsOfZeros said:
Cloud based File Storage by Rackspace Hosting

Disclaimer: I own stock in RAX
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It's actually cheaper to just go through Jungle Disk. If you go through Rackspace, you get 10 gigs for $4 + 15 cents a gig over that a month. Through Jungle Disk you get 5 gigs for $3 a month + 15 cents a gig over that a month. So that exact same 10 gigs through Jungle Disk using Rack Space hosting would only be $3.75 a month. Hey a fucking quarter is a fucking quarter man. :tongue2:
 
Network your computers together (easy as pie with Vista and 7) and get a bunch of external hard drives. I can access any movie, program, picture, or music file from any computer in the house whether it be upstairs on my master desktop or downstairs on the couch with my laptop. I honestly don't see why anyone would pay monthly for online backup. It's just a total waste of money when you can get a 2TB external drive for $89. I have a total of 30TB of actual data so I'm not someone that doesn't use the computer for serious stuff. Just network your shit together and things will be soooooo much easier. You can even make your external hard drives show up on the network. I can be downstairs on my laptop and watch movies that are stored on the external hard drive on my desktop. Fucking win.
 
wow thank for all the responses. Too many to reply to... I think i will put all my 'valuable' code and stuff in dropbox... then yeah, maybe look at some home solution for all my less important shit.

Thx bro's!!!!!!!!!! :D
 
Even a $3/month hosting account with GoDaddy has 10gb of web space. If it's code you want to store, you might as well store it where you can test it too and get a website out of it. That's a hell of a lot better than a 1gb dropbox or paying more for the same amount of storage through an online storage company. If you're afraid your shit will get lost in a fire, keep an external with all your important stuff and put it in your car. Have one with the same data in your house so you can use it. Chances are your house isn't going to burn down the same day your car is stolen. You people worry too much.

EDIT: Oh and by the way, read the disclaimers and TOS agreements for those online storage companies. They can lose your data and just say "too bad so sad" and you're just shit out of luck. I want control of my own data, thank you very much. I would NEVER use an online storage company as my only backup.
 
Rage9 said:
+1 for drop box, but that's more for archived code IMHO. If you're actively working on a project check out github.com.
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Pop XAMPP (portable) into your Dropbox and you have all your local-developed stuff backed up with Dropbox as you work on it, plus you can access your same local server via any computer.

I do that for most things. I still have yet to get subversion working on my server (don't laugh, I didn't have time to keep fucking with it after I got a bunch of errors) to backup my programing, but that's the better way to keep your code archived.
 
you'd be crazy to rely on local storage for backups, what if you have a fire? flooded? electrical storm? nuclear blast? it's all gone.

Offsite / Online is a must, surely :)

Dropbox++;
 
Rexibit said:
Pop XAMPP (portable) into your Dropbox and you have all your local-developed stuff backed up with Dropbox as you work on it, plus you can access your same local server via any computer.

I do that for most things. I still have yet to get subversion working on my server (don't laugh, I didn't have time to keep fucking with it after I got a bunch of errors) to backup my programing, but that's the better way to keep your code archived.
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Damn thats a top tip (xampp on dropbox) why didnt I think of that lol.
 
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