On 11/15/18, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:00:47PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> On 11/15/18, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:43:30AM -0500, Lee wrote: >> >> implying you keep lots of backups. For how long? >> > >> > Depends. Backups of your 1-2 GB of root/var can be kept for a year, >> > given weekly backups and a typical multi TB NAS. >> > Private user's data can be measured in terabytes, so keeping more than >> > a >> > couple of backups is problematic. >> >> There we go :) You've been talking enterprise grade backup standards - >> right? > > Nope. That's my home setup. > Assorted collection of my private files is worth 2.4Tb, and that's > excluding > wife's and kids'. > All stuff is triple-mirrored (as in - three different devices), total > hardware cost is less than $500 disks excluded. > > I don't speak of enterprisey things on this list. But I admit that > certain habits crept from office to the home ;)
OK.. I am suitably impressed :) >> Which is fine & maybe someday I'll get there. But right now simple, >> easy & blatantly obvious something worked or no is more important to >> me. > > A single consumer-grade NAS with a lowly RAID1 is simple to me. Right. Like I said - maybe someday I'll get there. Regards, Lee
