It happened again! I had a hard drive crash. This time, the drive was a Seagate 1 TB drive about 60% full.

So what was my backup strategy and did it work?

I have three basic methods of backing up:

1. Time Machine - I use time machine to manage the backups of my laptop.
2. Backup to DVD - This method I was hoping to end. It's time consuming and hard to use with large groups of files. However, this has been relatively reliable.
3. Drive "mirroring" - Using tools such as rsync to maintain a second copy of a hard drive.