Does anyone save or back up their music collection? (1 Viewer)

[Kermit McDermott]

For some reason I'm thinking of saving/backing up my cd collection onto an external hard drive, over a long period of time of course. Is this completely nerdy?

Has anyone done this?

 

[Gambra]

I have. And the external drive got borked. http://thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=57820&highlight=external+drive

Doing it all again though. Even my vinyl. I'm anally retentive like that.

 

[pete]

For some reason I'm thinking of saving/backing up my cd collection onto an external hard drive, over a long period of time of course. Is this completely nerdy?

Has anyone done this?

i ripped all my cd's to mp3 ages ago

doesn't take that long really. from there it's straightforward to archive them. itunes will do it incrementally if you're so inclined.

i just (finally!) archived about 90GB of digital photos tonight. RAW mode is great and all, but jesus the files are big...

 

[Gambra]

i just (finally!) archived about 90GB of digital photos tonight. RAW mode is great and all, but jesus the files are big...

I'm half way though archiving my DVD's. In DVDshrink ISO fomat (faster than DivX encoding anway) so I can play them my XBMC.. Now THAT'S huge file sizes..

 

[GO]

Borked! good one

 

[Lili Marlene]

If I lose any there'll always be someone on thumped with it

 

[Super Dexta]

i have almost all my CD collection in my itunes library, and I back that up to DVD every now and then.

really i'd prefer a mirrored raid array with parallel transfer and dual parity, but what can you do.

 

[zebra heart attack]

yep. hard drives die too quickly. easiest thing is to set up an incremental backup so then you just backup what has changed each time, instead of 100 gb worth.

on windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobianbackup
on mac: http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/imsafe/

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=42488&highlight=lost+songs

 

[drkdrk]

Done it and glad that i did

 

[Jasper]

Yep, backed up everything on a 250Gb external hardrive. Now i'm freaked out about anything happening that hard drive and in my weaker moments consider buying another hard drive to back that one up!!! Where'll it all end?????????

 

[pete]

Yep, backed up everything on a 250Gb external hardrive. Now i'm freaked out about anything happening that hard drive and in my weaker moments consider buying another hard drive to back that one up!!! Where'll it all end?????????

Two copies held in different locations will sort you out for resiliency.

 

[Boozin]

I've never backed up anything.
I have most of my music on my itunes, but recently ive become im afraid of loosing all of the stuff ive downloaded.
Whats the best way of backing it all up for somone who has never done it?

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

For some reason I'm thinking of saving/backing up my cd collection onto an external hard drive, over a long period of time of course. Is this completely nerdy?

Has anyone done this?

i had about 24000 mp3's on an external hard disk and it died on me so i bought a drobo and a couple of sata hard disks (750gb each) so it automatically backs everything up from one to the other, 'tis a life saver!!!!

ALL HAIL DROBO!!!!!


http://www.drobospace.com

 

[GO]

I started backing everything up on to dvd but it was gonna take alot of dvds and a looonnnggg time.So i have it all on an Aldis external hard drive thats sitting on the shelf.When I have some more disposable I'm gonna get another one and do the same.Its an expensive option but it means I dont have to burn a million dvds.

 

[GO]

i had about 24000 mp3's on an external hard disk and it died on me so i bought a drobo and a couple of sata hard disks (750gb each) so it automatically backs everything up from one to the other, 'tis a life saver!!!!

ALL HAIL DROBO!!!!!


http://www.drobospace.com

that looks like a very expensive option.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

that looks like a very expensive option.

worked out at around 500 euro for, in effect, 2 external hard disks that automatically back up to each other every minute, plus i keep all my work projects and accounts, etc on it too so i feel it was well worth it for the peace of mind.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

i believe the applestore now sell drobos too, not sure how much they are though, i got mine from a guy in engerland though with the dollar so weak at the moment buying from the usa might be cheaper these days

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

here's the applestore link
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...cessories/storage&nplm=TQ277LL/A&mco=A2F7CDA2

the drobo is perfect for me as i have no idea about technical stuff so it automatically backs up everything instantaneously, i don't have to do anything.

each drobo can take up to 4 hard disks so, theoretically, you'd have 4 hard disks in it backing up to each other every day and, i hope, the chances of all 4 being borked at the same time are remote

 

[travispickle]

I don't. But then I'm not a nerd.