--As of August 13, 2011 2:12:24 PM +0900, Randy Bush is alleged to have
said:
charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
backup.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Personal system: Important files are on the fileserver, on a RAID-Z volume.
It's backed up nightly using Ta
> > My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size.
> > (~4.7TB).
> >
We (NAC) run a rather large ZFS thing to sell cheap 'scratch space.' When I say
large, I think it surpasses well over 100 TB at this point.
So for me, it was easy. At home, my stuff spins on disk (n
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size.
> (~4.7TB).
>
> I've considered just subbing to backblaze as it's "cheap" on a single-host
> basis, but need something closer to ~5-7TB plus some room for growth (mayb
On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
>> backup.
>
> I've been wondering this as well.
>
> My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size.
On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> backup.
I've been wondering this as well.
My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size.
(~4.7TB).
This is due to both purchased digital media stora
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 09:13 -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
> We used to use DVD's for off-site backup, but that's not been the best
> of solutions. I've been experimenting with external hard drives but
> I am less comfortable with them; I've seen too many drives fail. The
> idea of letting them sit for
On 2011-08-13 16:53 , John Levine wrote:
>> Backups remain a tricky problem to get right.
>
> Yeah. I've been using external USB terabyte disks, which work OK but
> are irritatingly flaky.
>
> I keep thinking that this is what tape is for, but every time I look
> at AIT or LTO tapes and jukeboxe
> Backups remain a tricky problem to get right.
Yeah. I've been using external USB terabyte disks, which work OK but
are irritatingly flaky.
I keep thinking that this is what tape is for, but every time I look
at AIT or LTO tapes and jukeboxes, they seem to be about a generation
behind the disks
When my parents finally got broadband years ago and I wired their house, I
loaded Linux on an old x86 PC and stashed it in a corner of their garage.
rsync over an ssh tunnel runs nightly from a Linux server in my house (about
90 miles away) to theirs. I don't sync everything, but it gives me comf
>
> We used to use DVD's for off-site backup, but that's not been the best
> of solutions. I've been experimenting with external hard drives but
> I am less comfortable with them; I've seen too many drives fail. The
> idea of letting them sit for awhile and praying they spin up later
> bothers me
> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> > backup.
>
> Very good point.
>
> For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a
> portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage i
On 13/08/2011, at 3:12 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> backup.
>
> my life is on a 13" macbook air, all data, mail back decades (i do not
> save all mail), etc. the whole drive is encrypted, my main reason for
> moving to lion.
>
>
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> backup.
Very good point.
For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a
portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage is a network
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