Backup Philosophy: DVD's & HDD's?

[Gerco]

Originally Posted by xenigo

Yeah I had thought about that too. Except I thought I was just being paranoid with the whole "Hmm, maybe I should archive the drive - and the computer - hmm - and maybe the monitor, too!"

But maybe that's a little too extreme.

I am thinking of wrapping the HDD in a couple layers of foam for earthquake resistance though. I guess I should have elaborated on my whole "HDD last forever" comment... I was referring to the MTBF rating on HDDs being 1,000,000+ hours. I'm only going to have this thing plugged in while I'm actually doing the backups. You get what I'm saying

I still have backups on Tape, and the scsi tape drive with them. You cant be to careful.