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]

I performed my first major backup to S3 this morning. It was about 3GB of e-mail and took approximately 38 minutes. Not the fastest upload but it works and I'm happy with it. The JungleDisk system for OS X kind of stinks, because you have to tell Finder to connect everytime instead of being able to make it a favorite.

I am going to backup my music collection some time later today and I'll post when that's done.