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..some of my backup work for this years ISTD awards (which i'm entering).
Basically I'm typographically depicting lyrics within 2 songs: Papa's got a brand new bag- by James Brown, and Coconut - by Harry Nilson. I have now animated the type, and I'll post up on my flickr once i've got my results back! - all you can see is hand drawn.
1. Once a week (or so) I download my whole CiteULike library as a BibteX file onto my computer.
2. Then back this up into a Subversion repository. [This is a version control back up system which means I can recover any version, and it is stored on another server further reducing risk of loss]
3. The PDFs stored in the Mendeley folders are backed up everytime I run my TimeMachine back up. This is a Mac OS back up system that backs up incremental changes onto a back up hard disk. There are similar systems for other operating systems.
The back up regime means that should CUL or Mendeley or both become unavailable or unusable I have both a full copy of my reference library with all my notes and keywords in a BibteX file, and a full set of PDFs in nicely labelled folders so I can find them. So many applications accept BibteX files there would be no trouble finding another to import my library to.
Should my computer fail as well there are backups of all the PDFs in the TimeMachine and my BibteX library can be retrieved from the Subversion repository.