I'm going to buy a safe for my hard drive and back ups.

frobisher

Imagine getting robbed and some glue loving knacker steals your back up hard drive and session discs for the last 5 years. It's enough to make a confirmed pacifist like me keep a baseball bat with a 6 inch nail through the top by the bed. Ok, maybe not, but you get my point.

So I'm going to buy a small safe to keep my files in. Nothing too fancy, just something to hold off a fire and act as a secure central point for storage. Anyone else doing this? It seems like a good idea, I certainly want to do something, but then what if someone stole the safe?!

MagicMarker

frobisher wrote: »

but then what if someone stole the safe?!

Put another safe in the safe. If it's stolen it won't help you very much, but it will completely piss off the robbers when they eventually get the first safe open.

Brien

you can always get a safe professionally installed, have it cemented into the floor/wall

nitrogen

A wise move OP. I've made two backups and now all three hard drives are in different countries. Laptops can be bought again but work, photographs, files can't.

*Tripper*

I was robbed about three or four months ago and out of thousands and thousands of euro of audio equipment all they took was a Boss DS-1. Man, I'm lucky I don't have great stuff scum love!

Alter-Ego

Brien wrote: »

you can always get a safe professionally installed, have it cemented into the floor/wall

Of course the safe will have to be hidden behind a hinged portrait of your great aunt or something.

old gregg

not sure whether it's available everywhere but my local credit union in Waterford do a safety deposit box option so that I can store valuables like backups, gold, passports, foreign currency, a pistol. .... Ok I made the last few up cos sometimes I'd rather be a spy than a musician but the service is there and it's inexpensive.

studiorat

I use a metal filing cabnet. It locks and is as heavy as a safe! Drives and boxes etc use up a lot of space it'll fill very quickly.

frobisher

old gregg wrote: »

not sure whether it's available everywhere but my local credit union in Waterford do a safety deposit box option so that I can store valuables like backups, gold, passports, foreign currency, a pistol. .... Ok I made the last few up cos sometimes I'd rather be a spy than a musician but the service is there and it's inexpensive.

I'll definitely enquire into that! Could be perfect. The more I think about the safe the less inclined I am towards it. I think they'd just steal it and I'm not going to have on installed.

On a funnier note, some good friends of mine had their studio broken into, along with all the offices in the same building. Very little was taken on them, and they had some nice gear. But the robbers had taken their etch-a-sketch and placed it on their console with the message written on it, "you've been robbed." :pac::pac::pac:

PaulBrewer

frobisher wrote: »

I'll definitely enquire into that! Could be perfect. The more I think about the safe the less inclined I am towards it. I think they'd just steal it and I'm not going to have on installed.

On a funnier note, some good friends of mine had their studio broken into, along with all the offices in the same building. Very little was taken on them, and they had some nice gear. But the robbers had taken their etch-a-sketch and placed it on their console with the message written on it, "you've been robbed." :pac::pac::pac:

Really all you need to do is have the back ups at another address - if your house and the other place both burn down at the same time it's a sign from above ...

artvandulet

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Really all you need to do is have the back ups at another address - if your house and the other place both burn down at the same time it's a sign from above ...

...or the missus has caught you cheating again.

Welease

Another cheap option is to look into online storage.. Essentially it's just the files you are interested in, so .. Your ISP probably already gives you a certain amount, you can probably pay for more .. or look into one of the may online backup companies around.

frobisher

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Really all you need to do is have the back ups at another address - if your house and the other place both burn down at the same time it's a sign from above ...

I've had enough signs from above to last me a lifetime. I don't want to tempt the fecker any more.

trackmixstudio

2 sets of backups.
One in the studio and one in my house. Dead hard drive is much more likely than stolen hard drive.

studiorat

frobisher wrote: »

I've had enough signs from above to last me a lifetime. I don't want to tempt the fecker any more.

I used to get signs all the time, till they changed my medication.

dav nagle

I think this entire thread is a sign back your **** up or suffer satan at your door step

jtsuited

PaulBrewer wrote: »

if your house and the other place both burn down at the same time it's a sign from above ...

or maybe a sign you're buying non flame-retardant hard drives!

Helix

frobisher wrote: »

Imagine getting robbed and some glue loving knacker steals your back up hard drive and session discs for the last 5 years

regular backup dvds ALWAYS in another building