Backups are essential today–we’ve all lost files at some point and we all know our hard drives will fail at some point. That is why it is important to have a firm strategy and plan in backing up your files. Whether you use external hard drives or an online service like Mozy, you’re better off using one of these options than nothing.
New blog Managing Your Digital Life (MYDL.ME) has some great tips and discussions going on about managing backups on your computer. Many of the tips center around Drobo, a hot little product that makes expanding your backup capacities a snap. Drobo appeals to photographers, video producers, and other creatives who rely on large capacity drives to accomidate a horde of gigabytes of data. If one of the drives gets full, Drobo lets you know and you simply pop in a new, empty SATA hard drive and Drobo intelligently moves your data and recognizes the new elbow room.
I don’t have a Drobo yet, but I’m currently relying on Apple’s Time Machine in OS X Leopard to backup my data weekly to an external hard drive. What are you using to manage your backups?
