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Best way to archive sole trader dealings?

  • 17-11-2025 12:37PM
    #1
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I'm starting a business soon that will be heavy on data. When it comes to backing up, what's the best medium to do so? I was thinking of getting a blu ray recorder and some blank blu rays.

    I'm open to your expert opinions and TIA



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  • #2
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Just bumping for advice



  • #3
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    Get yourself an appropriately sized NAS for working with the data, taking into account RAID5/RAID6 configuration and then have a bunch of external hard drives to back your stuff up to - ensuring to encrypt the data on those and perhaps store some of these at another location.



  • #4
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    What kind of timeframe do you intend to keep them for? Blu Ray is dead, the drives and disc manufacturing have almost completely ceased.



  • #5
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123997977#Comment_123997977

    About 7 years roughly



  • #6
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124000210#Comment_124000210

    I presume these are being kept for potential tax reasons, and thus have financial liability attached. I also imagine the actual data volume is relatively small.

    First general point, keep at least two backups, including one off site. The usual saying is three, in at least two formats, with one offsite, but I presume these backups are in addition to whatever the trading platform records are.

    For the offsite part, you could arrange some basic cloud storage that you can upload to. These storage systems have redundancy and resiliency mechanism built in, so data loss is extremely unlikely.

    For something closer to home, I'd personally suggest a standalone NAS system, with either 2 or 4 hard drive slots. In mirrored mode (2 drives) or full RAID mode ( 3 or 4 drives), they'd be resilient against a single drive failure. A lot of NAS's also support sync to the aforementioned cloud storage location.

    Others may have their own preferences of course.



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