How far do you go with your backups
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
At home, No. 1. At work, it's taken care of by the Powers That Be. But I do think about taking a second copy of my data and leaving it with my parents who live 500 km away. What about you, Rama?
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I have both a usb and an eSata enclosure, one of which is kept ~75mi away at my parents house. A NAS is (and has been for months) on my todo list. ATM it's looking unlikely to happen for at least a month because of a shortage of free weekends to implement it during.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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At home, No. 1. At work, it's taken care of by the Powers That Be. But I do think about taking a second copy of my data and leaving it with my parents who live 500 km away. What about you, Rama?
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
Everything stays at home for me. Fortunately with Gmail I don't have to worry about email backup:)
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I do daily backups to separate disk in my PC (automated of course); and once a week I connect an external hard drive and backup to that. Also, I synchronize the data between my PC and my notebook; so in effect it's always stored on four hard drives. I started doing regular backups when I was 14 - after my first (and so far, only) hard drive crash. At least I didn't have much important data back then; and was even able to restore some of it from a 4 months old backup on CD.
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
1,2,(3-4),6--does the UK count?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
My backup system is atrocious. I keep the contents of the main computer and laptop in sync, so the laptop has a copy of the main computer's files and vice versa. But that's about it. Eventually I'd love a NAS cluster in an underground lair, but that's a few years away.
Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I engrave all my source code on basalt rocks weekly. The problem is that I’m running out of space in the nearby stone-pit.
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I have local and remote backups. I back up my machines twice a day; this archive rotates between a couple of firewire drives that take turns in the fire safe each night. Twice a week I push the archive to a remote server. My code and asset repositories are kept on a remote server that is backed up as well. So, I always have a local, local archive, remote and, remote archive of these things.
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How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
Very. I operate out of my house and my data, assets, and code are important to my livelihood.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I zip my data, encrypt it with a password, and send it to my (100) friends by email :)
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
yes yes yes yes no no semi-weekly backup to a local NAS. monthly backups to a USB drive that i keep in a bank vault (used to keep it at work, when i had a job).
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
1 - yes. A time machine, plus another 1 TB hard drive for my PC portion 2 - no. My code is in a source control system that is off site and does multiple layers of backup, and that's the only thing I really care about. 3 - see #2. My code has that level of backup. 4 -I don't think it goes that far 5 - yes 6 - ROTFL !!! I am very paranoid after a couple of crashes I had, but mainly about losing code I wrote between check ins. The online code backup I use is more than enough for making sure my code is safe, long term, and a seperate hard drive that runs a backup of code every 30 min solves that issue for me.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I want my backups to be safe so I place in a place no one will ever find. Including, it seems, me. :doh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
7. When was the last time you tried to do a restore?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
I have been thinking about a good solid backup method lately. My preferred method of backup is to use a raid 6 NAS as my main storage device that the "My Documents folder" of all of my computers points to. That works out synchronization and re-installation issues and it holds much more than what can be put into a single computer. The entire NAS (minus DVD/CD ISOs and video disk archives) is backed up onto a set of durable media (optical disks) which are placed in a safe cabinet. All major software media (games, windows, office, ...) and movies/video are backed up in ISO form onto the NAS for quick easy access, and also backed up onto 1to1 identical media that the software originally came on. All original disks are stored in the cabinet with the other data backup disks.
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
For all my personal stuff now I use http://www.getdropbox.com/[^].
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
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1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? 5. Do you use an online backup system? 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups?
At home, I have a 750 GB external USB hard drive attached to my Mac, and let Time Machine do its thing (the Mac's internal drive is only 320 GB).