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How do you BACKUP your data?
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| schlauf |
Well, here's the deal: you got some relatively small amount of personal data (say: 500 MB) and some greater amount of media data (music library, around ~ 50 GB) on your desktop at home. How do you efficiently backup, store and retrieve your files?
My solution for personal data: backup script for personal data to local (USB drive) and remote (WebDAV connected space) places, software RAID for music library while rotating mirror drives every month. Any different proposals? |
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| Owen M |
2nd hard drive. external to make it easy...hook up through usb.
make sure you wipe your ass after you poo too ;) |
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| miamitranceman |
| External drive via usb and time machine. |
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| jdat |
external hard drive
and putting burnt backup dvds offsite ( what's the point of backing up your data let's say .... 50 times ... if it's all in the same location and there's a fire? )
When funding allows I'll consider a raid solution |
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| schlauf |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
what's the point of backing up your data let's say .... 50 times ... if it's all in the same location and there's a fire? )
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Agreed, that's the reason for me also rotating the harddrives through different locations ... and storing encrypted personal data off site in remote places. Moreover, a decent hierarchical backup system saves space herein. |
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| Magnus |
| External 500GB hard drive using Seagate's Discwizard backup software. Works very well and gives me peace of mind. |
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| Dieselboy_1206 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Owen M
2nd hard drive. external to make it easy...hook up through usb.
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Same here. Converted an old internal WD to an external and just back up important poersonal files on it. And if I need to reformat or things start to break down on my desktop, I will back up other things.
I never back up anything other than sensitive personal documents from my laptop because it runs Ubuntu and I haven't ever had a problem and probably won't ever reformat. |
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| skizzell |
www.mozy.com
well worth the $5 a month to backup unlimited amounts of data off-site. that way, if my house burns down or a major earthquake wipes out my area, I can still retrieve my important data across the country. |
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| schlauf |
| If mozy only supported Linux as operating system ... but there's no way for me to use it with an emulation layer on a mission-critical machine. Otherwise, the idea is just great to add another bit of data security for an affordable price of $ 5. |
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| schlauf |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
does anyone still print out binary code or hex of their data - then use a scanner to convert it back to a bin? |
This should only be feasible for really low-footprint sized data, such as private keys or revocation certificates -- as proposed by GnuPG -- to be locked away in a secure storage area. |
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| Mmanu |
| I have 4 PCs and a mac, for a total 10 hard drives. I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket.. |
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| Mmanu |
| I have 4 PCs and a mac, for a total 10 hard drives. I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket.. |
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