Backup Genealogy data

What are genenalogists, family historians, and others doing to backup their
genealogy data files? Do they store them offsite ? Keep a backup CD in their

Lesley Robertson...

I backup to an external hard drive and to CDs which are replaced regularly
(I have had CDs less than a year old refuse to be read, so am now changing
over to DVDs for long term backup). The CDs are kept in my office (and all
the important stuff from my office pc is backed up and kept at my house). I
keep the master files of everything on my pc, with copies on my laptop
(which is much more easily stolen than the pc).
And I have hardcopy printout of trees, genealogy reports, etc.
Lesley Robertson

home office?

Denis Beauregard...

Keep the 2nd copy in a separate building because the house may burn
and there are burglars. You can rent a small safety drawer at your
bank if you work from home, or you can leave a copy to a friend or
relative.

Hugh Watkins...

I am in Europe and my two out of house back ups copies are in USA on
different servers :-)

Hugh W

Steve Hayes...

I use a flash drive to copy files from my desktop to my laptop and back again,
usually every day. So there are always three recent copies, and in addition
whenever I close the program I store a backup on the same computer, so there
are two compressed backups on each, not more than 2-3 days old.

I backup to CD about once a month, and give soem of the CDs to my wife to keep
at the office. Occasionally send some to other relatives.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Hugh Watkins...

and email them to myself as an attachemnt in web-search mail

just moved a file from one room to the next by doing that

Hugh W