Backup solutions Options

[cmac]

We've discussed it before, but what are you backup solutions?

I've never backed up and I've been lucky, but I keep hearing horror stories about losing years worth of stuff and frankly I'm becoming paranoid.

To me there's a difference between backup and archive. I'm looking for both solutions.

Backup, to me, is what can keep my current digital data from being lost by a mechanical failure and/or user error.

Archive is the long-term backup. The 'keep this safe in case I need it in 5 years' kind of thing.

I think I would prefer a local solution, as paying someone to store my files monthly seems kind of odd to me, though I guess I already basically pay flickr to store my archives of photos.

Any opinions on Drobo?

[impala454]

I have a 1 TB external drive, and a 1TB internal drive. I do most of my work (coding and documents and stuff) on the 1TB internal drive, so if the OS gets blown away I don't lose anything. then about once a month I do a straight copy of the internal drive to the external drive. I'm going to get a fireproof safe at some point and store it in there.