First of all, I literally have 3 copies of everything:
- Local copies - I keep all content local on my machines.
- Remote copies - All the local content is actively synchronized to "remote" machines.
- Off line copies - All content is copied to an external hard drive that is solely used for mass storage.
- Two computer are laptops for everyday use, one for work, one for personal use.
- The other two are towers. Both towers are used for the "remote" backups. One of these machines is used for storing documents and the other is used for storing media (the storage needs between the two should be obvious).
To make offline copies to the external drive, about once every 4 months I power up the external drive and Rsync the content from the remote machines to the external drive. If you don't know how to use Rsync, use the following post as a guide:
The following is a diagram of my machine connections...

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