MicroNugget: How to Build a Home Data Archiving Strategy

In this video, Anthony Sequeira covers the backup and archive strategy that he uses to work from home. He’ll outline the system he uses and describe how you can set up a similar process and structure for yourself. You’ll also hear a few suggestions on how to protect important files on your home network.

Anthony works from home, and much of the content he creates for CBT Nuggets is developed there. It’s absolutely crucial that the files he creates are stored, archived, and adequately protected.

He outlines the simple backup and archiving strategy he uses for his work files, then describes some of the ways you can secure your data on a home network. One of the cornerstones of his strategy is ensuring that his files are in multiple places until they’re old enough to be archived.

Regardless of whether you use the exact process Anthony does, you’ll gain some excellent insight into structuring a practical, secure storage solution for yourself.

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[TristanBellotti]

A good suggestion on archiving. Has optical degradation ever crossed your mind or the fact that at that point the videos are so out of date that it would not matter?

I store most of my files on a RAID 5 or RAID 1 array on a NAS and having 8-12TB of data allows me to archive files just on the NAS or to an external hard drive.