On 7/21/2011 10:31 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > On 11-07-21 08:05 AM, Chris Ess wrote: >> >>> What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a >>> few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was >>> thinking tape; >> >> Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently >> looking at for my home fileserver. >> > > Because then you have to take care of off-site rotation. You will > get tired of it, you will stop doing it, and you will loose all > those digital pictures of your important life events, as well as all > your pem and rsa keys, and other irreplaceable data when a fire will > take your home, your nas device and your external drive away.
Yes, this is the catch. Off-site backups require discipline to do. It doesn't sound hard (especially if you set yourself reminders to do it) but I won't really know how hard it is until I start doing it. One option would be a hybrid backup scheme: Identify everything absolutely, completely crucial, copy it regularly to some sort of encrypted container, and then upload that to an outside, network-based backup solution (or, I suppose, even something like dropbox). The catch is that if you add files to the system later that are crucial, you have to remember to add these to the backup mechanism too. --CAE _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
