My new backup plan... Options

[Hartmann]

So, I've decided to work out a new backup plan and thought I would share.

1. I am using a 320GB LaCie drive to do manual backups once a week (or whenever I feel it's a necessity).
2. Amazon S3 (talked about it before) is what I am using for remote backups in conjunction with JungleDisk and rsync to make incremental backups once a month or whenever I need to.
3. A monthly DVD that is burned of all important data (e-mail, documents, etc.)

I also upload my photos to flickr but only some of them, I will back all of them up in the original form to S3.

I am going to be trying this setup out over the next few months and seeing how it works. The only part I cannot automate is the burning of the DVD but I am working on that.

[Hartmann]

The Amazon service is pretty sweet stuff and is an actual viable backup solution. I was talking to a guy there at Amazon and he said that they actually do multiple backups of your backups across the country so that your data is replicated a lot, just in case.

I am interested in seeing which wins the large DVD format. I have a feeling that blu-ray is going to lose out even though it may be the superior format. My main problem with relying on discs as backups is that over time they degrade and eventually can't be used. Solid state memory would be ideal and at some point we'll get there.