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?
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...
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What do you use to keep laptop and PC in sync? Tnx
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That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O
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'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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That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O
Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
I'm sure there must be something like ActiveSync that would do it. MS have a PowerTool called SyncToy which can help but it does not have a scheduler.
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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 work, We have 2 SANS and use TSM... SANS are in 2 geodiff areas (3 miles apart), I backup incrementally 4 times a day. Sometimes more for giant DB's. My Workstation gets a backup weekly. At home, i have 3 jump drives that i rotate between the home office and the work office, and then i also have 2ea 500 GB external HDD's. I lose a PC about every 6 months, then i have to fix it.... so i am quite used to implementing HADR at home, Bare Metal Restores FTW!
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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 have a backup to NAS - this contains my "documents" (photos, videos, etc) and is "backed up" via a folder synchronization program. The NAS is RAID1, so there are 2 mirrored drives. And it is in another room (albeit, not off site) I also periodically do a system image -> USB hard drive I use as a "snapshot" where i could restore my entire system in the event of a failure. I'm given 2gb of online backup thru Qwest (my ISP) but since they only give me 90KB/s upload speed, I opt to avoid that hassle. :)
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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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That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O
Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
It may not be the newest kid on the block... but I'm a fan of Unison. I tried SyncToy and it never gave me a 1:1 replica. When Unison is done with two replicas they are always equal. Folder for folder, file for file, total byte length to total byte length. I've been using it for all my backups for years. To answer the questions: 1) Yes 2) Yes 3-6) No I backup to several external drives (USB/eSATA) on an irregular basis and also to my file server running RAID-5 on a nightly basis (not technically a dedicated NAS but the machine does little else than serve files and run Folding@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?
THIS BACKUP WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 15 SECONDS . . .
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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, GMail. At work, number three: 1 - 7 daily tapes 2 - 4 weekly tapes 3 - 12 montly tapes 4 - 6 yearly tapes Old stuff gets replaced.
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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 use Acronis to backup my home fileserver to a SimpleTech eSATA drive. Once that process completes, I have it move the previous backup to a Klegg NDAS drive on the other side of the house. That's the one that I swap into my bank's safe deposit box when retrieving the alternate. The server itself is virtual, running on the free version of VMware Server 2, so it can quickly and easily be restored to working condition even in the event that the hardware is stolen or destroyed. Unlike much of the current population, I don't trust my data with others. I refuse to use Wi-Fi or online backup services, so you'll need a real search-warrant or some serious personal torture to get to my data. I run the ancient, but inherently non-routable, NetBEUI protocol between my PCs and my fileserver, so there is no way to directly hack it from the Internt -- one of my PCs will need to be compromised. Even then, I use TrueCrypt for the server's data, so someone would need to still enter an extremely long passphrase to mount a data volume. I don't care if you call me paranoid, but I'll never have to worry about my stuff getting into the hands of anyone else in useable form. Yet, I have a decent 3-level backup. It's worked well this far.
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That's why it's atrocious. I manually copy them over every few weeks. :-O
Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
I gave you a 5 for your public honesty...
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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?
On personal projects: #1. On customers: I recommend #6 and above although some don't like to spend money on this silly things.
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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?
Nightly backups to server, weekly backups as well (4 weeks back) which gets backed up to an offsite storage 50 miles away as well as disk based and tape based local backups, and a granite vault.
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