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Comment Amazon S3 bulk import (Score 1) 680

It might not be a bad idea to think about something like Amazon S3 for the "offsite" part of your strategy. It is a lot of data, but the Amazon folks are flexible, and they will do an import/export operation from portable media: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#importexport

Once you get the bulk of the data transferred, managing incremental backups is not so difficult. I use "S3 Backup" (http://www.maluke.com/software/s3-backup) because I wanted something simple, with data encrypted both in motion and at rest. The monthly cost from Amazon is ridiculously small.

At home, I'm duplicating my pictures on a dedicated disk mech on my desktop machine, plus a local media server. The offsite backup to S3 runs nightly.

The problem I see with manually backing up - to anything, or anywhere - is that you'll forget. It's inevitable. If you don't set up an automated process - and test retrieving your data occasionally - then you risk losing some substantial portion.

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Young people at The University of Baltimore will be able to study the zombie condition thanks to the newly available English 333. Students in the class will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. Instead of writing a final research paper they may write a script or draw storyboards for their own zombie movie. Unfortunately the class doesn't seems to cover brain appreciation.

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