Hi,
The usual media one has to backup is photos - which can easily be 100G
(after some years of collection).
So a backup solution has to be designed for 100 G.
Dvds are too small, and slow to search.
network based backups are too slow - DSL uplink is too slow - and the
volume of data to
backup is too high, in comparison to the monthly cap.
Which leaves:
External usb drive
Run time machine (apple software) and write contents of
hard drive to usb drive. machine blows up. install replacement machine.
run "time machine" and everything - I mean everything- is restored as
before on the old hard drive.
simple effective etc, and works for all users.
Not sure on the linux alternatives that are available - I would be
interested in hearing of users experience.
There is deja dup, which according to
http://maketecheasier.com/deja-dup-makes-backup-a-simple-task-linux/2011/03/17
"Deja Dup Backup is yet another backup tool, except that it turns the
whole complicated backup process into kid stuff."
(((This brings me to pet peeve #2. Users are told to do backups, but
the sentence should be:
1)do backup
2)verify that you can take the backup media and restore to a new machine
There are a legion of stories out there of people/firms who have
regularly and reliably backed up to some media every week.
on disaster hitting, the backup media was found to be "defective".
There are two times that you can test your backup.
a) after disaster happens, b)before the disaster happens.
)))
Derek.
On 26/11/11 17:22, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
Now that others have mentioned 'upselling'
I haven't heard one salesperson mention the sad fact: "you're going to
put a few years worth of photos etc on this drive, and then it *is*
going to fail, so you need some form of backup"
External hard drive? DVD writer? Amazon S3 subscription?
...
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