Last July I posted asking about storage and backup. I still don't have a good solution, but am thinking offsite backup is the way to go. I got a few responses then, but no consensus.

What is your backup solution?

Poll Backup

If you have any other comments, more data is better!

mew0422 and I are trying to sort out our data-storage needs. She has a laptop, I have a desktop. We want some NAS and we want a good backup solution.

It looks like Apple's Time Machine is entirely client-based and so can use any mountable storage, be it a Time Capsule, a USB HDD, or something else ( Read more... )

Since my previous post on the subject, I went and got a 500GB SATA hard drive, threw Ubuntu on it (which was amazingly easy), and cp -rp'd my data over. It is now much much happier, with no clicking and with disk-intensive apps such as f-spot being quite responsive ( Read more... )