On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 8:13 AM Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually this had me thinking what is the need to back up the ... Internet?
I'm sure the NSA knows the answer to this. Based on discussions I've had with people who are into such things they basically have their own Wayback machine, except it obviously doesn't respect robots.txt or takedown requests. I kind of wish the NSA sold IT services to the general public. I just assume they probably have root on all my devices and their own backups of everything on them. It would be nice if I had a disaster if I could just pay them to buy back a copy of my data, instead of having to have my own completely redundant backups. I'm personally using duplicity for encrypted cloud backups of the stuff that is most critical (documents, recent photos, etc), AWS Glacier for stuff I want long-term backups of (older photos mostly), and then bacula to store local copies of everything I have any interest in because that is easier than trying to restore it all off of Amazon if I lose an array or whatever. AWS Glacier is actually pretty cheap for backup, but be prepared to pay a fair bit for restoration. I'd only need to go to them in a serious disaster like a house fire, so having to pay $100 or whatever to get them to mail me a hard drive with my data isn't really that big of a deal. My backups are generally one-way affairs. -- Rich
