On 28/11/11 01:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 27 November 2011 19:53, Nick Rout <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Derek Smithies
>
> 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.
That strategy learns nothing from recent chch events. The "backup to a
different external each day and take it home at night" is useless when
disaster strikes during the day and you are running screaming from the
building.
Agreed.
One of the problems experienced in Christchurch was the long time to
recover backed
up data. If you have 100gb to recover, and it is on recovering it that
you can start, it is going to
take a while if your approach is via ADSL.
Triple solution:
Email on a IMAP server (gmail is my current favourite - but I am open
to suggestions)
source code on a remote server in the US. Multiple checkouts of that
code on machines here.
Time to get started on the code is a couple of hours - the length of
time to get a new machine, install linux
and start work.
Photos on USB drives. The parents can take one to another city.. This
won't kill my ADSL link for the months
spent getting all 100Gb up to a remote server.
Derek.
--
Derek J Smithies Ph.D.
Christchurch,
New Zealand
-- "How did you make it work??" "the usual, got everything right"
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