Comments on: Not if, but when http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joe Devon http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/#comment-19838 Joe Devon Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:42:02 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2564#comment-19838 You mean I’m not the only person who had 3 backups fail at the same time?? You brought back bad memories.

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/#comment-19825 Tim McCormack Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:53:45 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2564#comment-19825 My dad solves the remote backup problem with an external drive in a plastic bag inside a 5-gallon plastic bucket sunken in the yard with a water-tight lid and a drip-cover. If the house burns down, this thing is safe.

]]> By: Roy http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/#comment-19824 Roy Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:37:19 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2564#comment-19824 For the “very useful data” I find myself very confortable in using a raid 1 system, and once in a while I connect a spare disk and do a full resync… 4 gigs of data is less than 4 minutes… and in case of trouble “just attach”…

(Yes it would be smart to have a remote rsync of those data to…)

In addition the usefull goes with the not so useful data is rsync’ed in a nas… 

/* Foolish nerd mode on */
Storing disk in a bank, uau…

I live outside the city so i have some valley nearby, and hill’s to… so I thought to use those cheap 5ghz wifi link (who said nano station ???) to make a remote nas… 20 km can be easily attained…

I prefer to have my disk in a shelter than in a bank btw… It will be so funny to be in desperate need of the disk on SUNDAY!!!

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/#comment-19822 Tim McCormack Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:58:08 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2564#comment-19822 Oh, and here’s the homebrew backup I use, in case you think it isn’t entirely an insane idea:

http://www.brainonfire.net/code/backup/

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/01/09/not-if-but-when/#comment-19821 Tim McCormack Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:54:40 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2564#comment-19821 I take a somewhat different approach. My laptop’s hard drive is also encrypted. I keep a full-disk byte-for-byte dump of the relevant partition on a drive at work, refreshed perhaps every 4 months. (It takes a while!) My go-to backup is an encrypted drive with incremental snapshots using hardlinks for deduplication. Only changed files are copied. I’m still considering whether or not this is a bad idea. It does mean that I have a time-series of snapshots of my system, and I have successfully recovered from foul-ups by chrooting or even syncing an entire snapshot onto my (broken) system.

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