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Originally Posted by Don Plumley
What's really cool is you can use it to sync directories between multiple computers and it automatically replicates and keeps the newest version in all places (online and diff computers).
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A problem with that logic is that if a file corruption occurs at one site, that corruption automatically propegates to backup files! Granted, this issue can be somewhat remedied by using some type of version management tool, but often a data corruption issue crops its ugly head the day after the non-corrupted backup version is expired. I've been this countless times - and my line of work is SAN/Storage management.
I dump all of my files to an external harddrive, into a folders such as: "Z-Work-2010-07-23." I then burn those files onto a DVD which I store offsite (my work office). Granted, I am wasting a lot of space since I will have mutiple copies of a given file on my backup media, instead of just copying the incremental changes and/or files with recent "last updated" dates, but storage is cheap enough these days, and the headaches of restoring incrementally backed up file is too high for me to bother.
-Z-man.