Relatively speaking, I’ve been one lucky computer user. I’ve never had a hard drive fail here at the house. I’ve never accidentally deleted something vital. I even believed in the annual-reimage. As far as losing data I’ve never really lost anything I cared that much about. For that reason, I’m only now looking at a serious backup “strategy”. I put “strategy” in quotes, because DVD’s and CD’s do not suffice as a strategy. It’s a good step that should be used in a strategy, but by itself you do not have a strategy.
Now that more than just I rely on our financial data being in order (I’m a huge Quicken believer) and we have more pictures of our 3 month old sun than the previous 28 years of our lives combined I have a vested interest in not losing it all.
I’ve been mulling my options now for about 3 or 4 months; playing with different tools like Jungle Disk, Vista Backup and Restore, Windows Home Server, Mozy, and several others.
