WHY you should keep good backups...

[Mathster]

http://www.cannonsafe.com/fireprotection.nxg

Cannon claims 350*F internal surface temperature.

the safes are not immersion proof. there is a hole to run the power cord thru for your golden rod.

[cauzomb]

Emerssion resistance is pretty important, cause they use a fire hose to put out the fire. Try "off-site" archiving, in one of those smaller fireproof safes.. can even be just out in the shed or something..

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I actually thought of the shed. I have to consider what -50 celcius will do to a hard drive though. You can buy small saves at like walmart and such, thats probably what I'd get. The gun ones do look nice though, but would be hard to find one here.

[TurcoLoco]

Why don't you consider backing up to the net?

[Mathster]

Emerssion resistance is pretty important, cause they use a fire hose to put out the fire. Try "off-site" archiving, in one of those smaller fireproof safes.. can even be just out in the shed or something..

a safe will be hose down resistant and as long as the water doesn't get over a few inches deep on your floor, its not going to get to the inside of the safe.

If you get are worried, set the server on one of the higher shelves.
Its going to be tough to fill your house with a few inches of water during a fire. Floods are another story.

[Red Squirrel]

Why don't you consider backing up to the net?

That was actually my first plan for offsite backups. I might still go with that plan but I'll really have to figure a way to reliably and securely upload tons of data. Thats the trick. ftp does not really cut it when it comes to reliability. Almost need a custom app thats designed for this purpose. Would keep track of what stage its at, if the connection gets dropped it reconnects and keeps uploading where it started off.

[Gizmokid2005]

I couldn't do other the net backups...You figure...if you have a 384kb/s upload on your connection...it's going to take more than 6 hours to upload 1GB...and I backup near 180GB/night...just not feasible for me.

[300jd]

i defintley going to start thats why i got external hard drive

[TurcoLoco]

I couldn't do other the net backups...You figure...if you have a 384kb/s upload on your connection...it's going to take more than 6 hours to upload 1GB...and I backup near 180GB/night...just not feasible for me.

Wtf, 180GB every nite? Why do you need to backup that much data? That is a lot of data that I never had to or care to deal with....my most critical data (files, pics and MP3s) would not take more than 10GB of spaces tops!
If you are dealing with that much data then you know you have to use an external drive and keep it in the garage/car, etc. but again if you are dealing with that much 'critical' data, no matter what method you pick, it will have some cons...

PS. A friend of mine and I thought about settings up to file servers at each others house so we both could backup locally and also remotely. There are 3rd part software that can be used or set them up as IIS servers or something.

[Gizmokid2005]

Yup. My Windows partition is about 15GB and my programs partition is pushing 120GB and my third "stuff" paritition is another 25GB...