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How far do you go with your backups

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  • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

    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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    martin_hughes
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    For all my personal stuff now I use http://www.getdropbox.com/[^].

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    • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

      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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      http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3168001#xx3168001xx[^] :((

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      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

        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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        Tom Delany
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        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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        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

          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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          Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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          Till I hear glass breaking.

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          • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

            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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            rguilmette
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            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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            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

              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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              PIEBALDconsult
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              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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              • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                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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                Joe Woodbury
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                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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                • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                  Everything stays at home for me. Fortunately with Gmail I don't have to worry about email backup:)

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                  ghle
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                  That's what they want you to think. :(

                  Gary

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                  • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                    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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                    ghle
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                    I once backed up all the way around the block. Then I hit a tree. :)

                    Gary

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                    • 0 0x3c0

                      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.

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                      What do you use to keep laptop and PC in sync? Tnx

                      No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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                      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                        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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                        Fahad Sadah
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                        What backups?

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                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                          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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                          Joel Gaskell
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                          I looked at shipping to the moon, but found it was easier and cheaper to ship to a film set in the Nevada desert.

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                          • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                            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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                            Jonas Hammarberg
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                            1, 2 and 3. Step 4 is taken by the boss.

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                            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                              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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                              Jorgen Andersson
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                              I have a tape robot that makes daily and weekly backups. Last weeks weekly backup is stored in a bank locker, Older weekly backups in a fireproof safe.

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                              • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                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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                                Gareth Pitt Nash
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                                I have a bit of a data importance hierarchy. But I use: -DVD/CDs stored at someone else' place (ie. parents) -Windows Home Server (bi-weekly backups of pc's on my network) -External HDD -USB Memory sticks If something is really important I will use all of the above. I also have pictures on facebook and stuff like my cv etc attached to emails that are archived in Gmail, but they are not what I consider to be proper backups, just convenient if I get really stuck. That's for my personal stuff anyway.

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                                • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                  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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                                  PTJA
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                                  1. Do you backup to a separate disk/NAS/USB etc? Yes 2. Do you periodically archive the disk mentioned in 1 to another disk? Yes 3. Do you put the archive disk in a fire safe box/room? Yes (I store recorded DVDs there) 4. Do you take the archive disk and put it in a bank locker? No 5. Do you use an online backup system? I just started to email encrypted and compressed backups to my gmail account. 7 GB should be enough... 6. Do you ship it to moon for more safety? Yes, during the night. And then I wake up :-) How far do you go and how paranoid are you with backups? USB, external HDD, recorded DVDs - not too paranoid, I hope...

                                  -- Jarek Andrzejewski

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                                    What do you use to keep laptop and PC in sync? Tnx

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                                    0x3c0
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                                    That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O

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                                      Ok that explains the source code on my new stone coffee table. :)

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                                        That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O

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                                        G Tek
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                                        Check out Microsoft SyncToy - it's a free download and works well for what you're doing. Beware that I have seen it hang in large, greatly nested directories.

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                                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                          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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                                          Gary McDonnell
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                                          I'm both a sysadmin and a programmer. I make multiple backups of all of the data on the server nightly. Two local disk based backups (not on the server), one online backup to a commercial service and one online backup to a server I own at a colo facility. I keep seven full backups on the colo'd server. I love rsync. I'm in the process of setting up another server to use for backups for my clients. Will be able to charge them less than the fancy services such as Mozy Pro and still make a decent profit.

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