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Originally Posted by photon
Good point about the media backup, I haven't reached that completely digital state yet.
And the only problem with Moby or any other online backup is for really huge amounts (1TB say), it would take YEARS to do the first upload if you tried to stay within the transfer limits of most ISPs  |
It takes a while, which is why you get started on it before you accumulate too much stuff. I also did my initial uploads in small batches so that I could prioritize what went up - it was most important to get the photos uploaded, then the music I no longer had physical copies of that would not be available elsewhere, etc. In the meantime, I simply kept a second copy locally as well.
It's quite unobtrusive - mine runs throttled to 256 kilobits upstream during the day, and full speed from 11pm to 7am each night. I hardly ever know its there, even with latency sensitive devices like the PS3 and online games.