Recently, I lost all my music. Long story short, I was an idiot and dropped my external hard drive with all my music on it out a 7 story window, thus losing it all. Thankfully though, a majority of the sites were able to allow me to re-download it all. I didn't ever backup my music, so I still lost a large portion of it. I was just wondering if anyone could recommend various methods of backing up a music collection. It would be either physical, or online.

Thank you.

Get a second hard drive and don't place it near a window.

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That sucks dude. At least they let you re- download the majority of your stuff.

I have back ups on top of back ups. I have four external hard drives which are networked so the files can copy at the sametime. This way if a hard drive craps out I'm covered. I still use cd so what I'll do is make playlists of all my music. There's two cd copies of each playlist of each tune which I take out to my gigs. The third cd copy goes on a shelf just in case. I maybe ripping another set of playlists just to have sometime before summer.

burn to dvds and put them somewhere safe.

Completely forgot about the DVD method.

Has anyone tried using an online resource? That way you will always have a working non-physical format?

I've never tried the online service and I'm sure it would work, but once again you're relying on a electronic storage device. Let's say something happens to your hard drive. Then you go log in to your online account to retrive you files, but you can't excess it because the IT guys are doing maintenance on their servers. Now what do you do?

I would suggest having a back up external drive besides your primary, and also rip your entire collection onto a cd or dvd. It does take time but in the long run it's worth it.

I keep a backup on one of the smaller external HDs that don't require an additional power supply (WD Passport style), and keep it in a fire safe.

get a blueray-rom, and burn them out once a year or something. not as many discs as each have 25GB (or 50 if u get dual layer). its my plan myself. meanwhile i use the dvd and external disc. and actually theres nothing here thats important anyway, im trying to buy everything on CD aswell.

I have two external HDs and use one for playing out off of and the other just to hold my backups.

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