How do you back-up an external hard drive? I have an external hard drive with all my music and videos on it, and I would just about shoot myself if anything happened-- but do you get a second external hard drive??
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Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2008 10:58:00 am PDT #6205 of 25501
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Gudanov - May 14, 2008 11:05:47 am PDT #6206 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Kinda depends on how much data you have. You could always burn DVDs if you don't change the data much and there isn't an overwhelming amount of it. Otherwise a second external hard drive is pretty much it.
I have this little guy, NAS 200, with two mirrored hard drives to store important stuff on. I don't know if a network device makes sense for you though.
Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2008 11:24:40 am PDT #6207 of 25501
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Right now I have 104G. Is that too much to burn to DVD (I am thinking yes?) I have a lot of TV downloaded from itunes, and I would actually like to rip a lot more of the stuff I have on DVD. I feel like I am a bit done with purchasing physical DVD's, as I pretty much destroy the beautiful boxes anyway.
Tom Scola - May 14, 2008 11:26:49 am PDT #6208 of 25501
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Is that too much to burn to DVD
About 30 times too much.
Wolfram - May 14, 2008 11:26:59 am PDT #6209 of 25501
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I just figured out how to rip from DVDs to Itunes and transfer to Ipod. It's awesome.
But most of you already knew that.
Gudanov - May 14, 2008 11:29:08 am PDT #6210 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah, you'd be looking at about 25 or more DVDs, not very practical.
You'd need a second external hard drive for the storage space to back things up, but I don't know anything about backing up iTunes stuff.
le nubian - May 14, 2008 11:56:48 am PDT #6211 of 25501
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Sophia,
I think you need to get an external hard drive (something on the order of 200+ GB) and back your other drive up to that.
I like this drive, but I wanted to go for style:
Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2008 12:17:36 pm PDT #6212 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thanks guys! That is a beautiful hard drive LeNub, but it will live at work (I have no home computer-- just the hard drive for my music and personal stuff, a work computer at regular work, a work computer at the theater, and my phone, which is internet capable)
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 2:14:12 pm PDT #6213 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My MacBook has me with a different user name than my other Macs, so when I copied my iTunes directory, some of the subdirectories have my old user name as the owner. How do I give myself ownership of every directory and subdirectory in a folder? (There's a simple command to do it, but it didn't work because of all the weird folder names.)
amych - May 14, 2008 2:15:17 pm PDT #6214 of 25501
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