The Backup Manifesto

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I don’t know how many hard drives you have but as a photographer and filmmaker I have over a dozen hard drives, scattered across three computers.

It used to be enough just to pair up some hard drives and move a few files around.

No more. Each computer needs its own backup drive/system.

I’ve just been through cleaning up duplicate backups and freeing up about five drives.

While doing so, I had to come up with some principles of backup, which I will call the backup manifesto. Here they are:

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