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?
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).
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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?
Till I hear glass breaking.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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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 backup at 10am and 10pm to 1 of 3 usb hdd's. I swap the drive after the 10am backup. 1 hdd on the machine one in my backpack and one in FP safe at home.
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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 code? I copy to USB drive when I think of it (daily-ish). On my last job I also archived to CD periodically (weekly-ish).
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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 Mozy installed on my home system. It backs up daily. At work, we have backup exec which backs up my system every evening. Our source control server (Surround SCM) backs up daily at 3 a.m.. Every week, I archive my working code (xcopy with exception list for ncbs, objs, pchs etc. and 7-zip the result); I copy that to a USB key, keep the last two weeks on my hard drive and also make a copy to our development server which is backed up nightly. I believe our company backups are rotated off site nightly (our server farm has to be up 24x7 and they've really beefed that up too--we have a fail over to a data center in another city.) Every few months, we copy our source code to DVD-R and send it to an escrow company.
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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?
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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?
What 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 looked at shipping to the moon, but found it was easier and cheaper to ship to a film set in the Nevada desert.