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Originally Posted by Chad Z.
In my router settings I 'port forward' so that I can access my home network outside of my home
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Just what are you forwarding through your router?
I was going to do the RAID thing too, but using consumer-grade hard disks in that kind of way is a great way to shorten their lives. I've instead bought a 1TB drive and parts of that get backed up automatically in various ways.
All my photos are copied off my camera and stored on
my own server, which runs the fantastic
Gallery2 software so I can easily look at the images I have.
They're all then burnt as DVDs, and depending on how paranoid I feel they also get copied onto the various laptops I own as an extra backup.
The worse thing anyone can do is empty their camera into their computer, then write the images to CD/DVD and delete them off their computer "to save space/to make it run faster". A 'backup' means there is more than one copy of your data.
In all the years I've been using computers, I've had quite a few hard drives emit scary noises and stop working, or Windows has crashed and I've lost files, or the computer itself breaks down. I've also had DVDs and CDs either become scratched, or the shiny layer has started to peel away with age.
Offline storage is the best method, let someone else worry about all the hardware. Unfortunately for a serious amount of storage it can cost quite a lot.