On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:51:53AM -0500, Gary Nunn wrote: > My new and improved, paranoid level, backup strategy is to backup to > DVD monthly, make TWO copies, verify them, one copy stays here at > home, one copy goes in my lock box at the bank with my film negatives > and other selective irreplaceable items (you know, fire, flood, theft, > kids and Kool-Aid).
You keep your kids in a lock box at the bank? You think that is paranoid? I have that PLUS I have two linux boxes running on my home network, one is the primary server and the other is a backup server. Every night the backup server makes an incremental backup of the main server, while archiving incremental backups from previous times. It is a fairly clever method using the Linux rsync program (I didn't think of the technique, but I like it) that allows me to go back to any day in the last seven days, any Sunday in the last 8 weeks, or any 1st in the last 12 months, but it doesn't use up a lot of disk space since it only stores changes. My opinion is that if a backup system isn't automated, then it isn't reliable -- humans are the weak link in the backup strategy. Of course, if my home gets destroyed I would lose data except that I also do the off-site DVD thing like you described. But not as often as I should...I've been thinking about automated backing up over the Internet to an offsite server, but my upstream bandwidth is a bit low for that so I haven't gone through with it yet... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
