Question About Creating Backup Image File

I just realized the image file is HUGE. Where do you folks put the file? Do you burn it on a disc, external hard drive, or somewhere else? I am not sure where I can fit it.

 

I have a USB seagate 320 Gig, I just made a full backup today with Acronis. I used to backup to DVD but if I did regular backup schedule it would be expencive.

 

Under typical imaging conditions, your backup image should be 60% - 70% of your used disk space. As the others have mentioned, I also backup to an external hard drive. If your image is indeed 'huge' you should get a large-capacity external drive with the fastest external interface your PC will accomodate (ranked in decending order of data-transfer speed: eSATA (fastest), Firewire400, USB2).

 

I tend to think that rather than have one large external drive, I prefer to have 3 medium sized, so that it is almost impossible for the 3 to fail. Also to change them after 2-3 years, that is to add extra ones is not too expensive.

 

Hello Foxfired, define HUGE
Video file are often not compressible.
DO you have a HUGE set of various media: music, movie etc files ??

Get a NAS device with hardware RAID and multiple hotswap drives rather than single drive = redundancy and peace of mind.
( nothing wrong in essence with single drive, heh, other than unexpected failure )
There is some great kit available:
http://www.drobo.com/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340871,00.asp
http://www.readynas.com/
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASNVPlus.aspx

I have a Netgear ReadyNAS: outstanding tool for the home SOHO.

Search google: 'nas devices'

Maybe move some of the bigger individual files to external storage if you want to keep images to 'minimum' size.

 

Two 2.5" portable HDDs here (320Gig, 500Gig).
Rotate them, always keeping latest backup off site.