David Christensen wrote: > On 03/11/2017 07:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I've vague ideas of what backup pattern(s) I might follow. >> I'm looking for reading materials that might trigger "I hadn't thought >> of that" moments. >> >> Suggestions? > > [1] is a decent overview: > > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596102463.do > > [1] W. Curtis Preston, 2007, "Backup & Recovery Inexpensive Backup > Solutions for Open Systems", O'Reilly Media, ISBN: 978-0-596-10246-3
I can only agree that O'Reilly books are well worth the price of admission. As for the backup schemes / plans (which I can only assume are in that book, as I've not personally read it yet), I favor a 3-2-1 setup. - 3 copies (original, backup, backup of the backup) - 2 mediums (HDD & something else - right now optical ... though I really need to change that) - 1 offiite Don't forget that "if you don't have a tested backup, you don't have a backup." Currently, the system here is - every PC has a cronjob backing up $HOME to a central "server" (read - repurposed PC with decent WD drives), just an rsync script that runs daily. - /path/to/backups/$user/Documents/ is tar'd weekly and burned to disc. - discs are copied, and taken to parents' place. "Rolling Updates" are performed there (as the CD case / binder thing (see: [1]) is already full, take oldest set of discs, replace with the newest, repeat til full again, then start over at the beginning). [1] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/aplusautomation/vendorimages/b54c252f-3608-4565-814d-ab4ce301675c.jpg._CB317952912__SL300__.jpg -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
