On 2/26/2015 7:37 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: > >> Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 2/25/2015 7:27 PM: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>> >>>> I spent about $50 for Acronis True Image Home 2015 last October. >>>> This price included later updates. For one PC or one MAC, that price >>>> still applies. No, I don't know if it can operate under Linux. >>>> >>>> With several other good backup applications (software), why would >>>> someone spend four times as much for backup hardware? >>> >>> A good backup system must have several essential features (top three, >>> not an exhaustive list): >>> >>> 1) The backup media must be removable or located separately from the >>> computer. If your house goes up in flames, and your backup was on a >>> shelf next to the computer, you have no backup. In the case of removable >>> media, you should have several, and make a habit of removing the newest >>> one and bringing back the oldest one each day. >>> >>> 2) The backup system must be automated and scheduled. If you have to >>> think to do it yourself, you'll forget or make excuses, and you'll have >>> no backup. Murphy's law states that the failure will occur on the day >>> when you forgot. >>> >>> 3) The backup system must be capable of restoring all or part of your >>> system from bare metal. If your computer dies or you lose a file and you >>> can't restore it, you have no backup. >>> >>> So it's nice that you didn't spend a lot on software, but that doesn't >>> tell us whether you're safe. Can you pass these three tests? >>> >> >> As I've detailed here before, yes. I have two 1 Tb external USB drives. >> All three systems in the house run scheduled backups to the drive >> connected to my main PC. I periodically take the drive to the bank and >> swap it with the one from the safe deposit box. > > Sounds good. Did all that hardware ;-) come included with the $50 > software price tag? Remember, you were replying to a comment that > "people [do] not like spending 200 dollar[s] [on] [backup] hardware." >
I use a single 500 GB portable hard drive by Western Digital. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I am sure it was less than $50. I keep the portable hard drive outside of my house in a location I will not disclose. Once each week, I backup my C and J partitions (both on the same SSH drive) and my D partition (on a "spinner"), writing the backup files all to my D partition. I keep backup copies there just in case I need to restore a file that I destroyed, which happens about once a month. the D partition still has over 700 GB free space. After completing my backups, I bring the portable hard drive into my house, encrypt the files using an OpenPGP application, and move the encrypted files to the portable hard drive. I then return the portable hard drive to its outside location. For each backup, I do a full backup on one partition and incremental backups on the other two. I rotate taking the full backups so that I have a two full backups with two incremental backups for each full backup for each partition. The encrypted full backup and its two incremental backups on the portable hard drive for a given partition are deleted when I add a new full backup for that partition. On my D partition where I keep the unencrypted backups, I do a similar delete but using a file eraser that overwrites the backup files with meaningless bytes. When I backup my D partition, I omit the folder that contains photos. I backup that folder out of the rotation cycle, with two or even three incremental backups for each full backup. This does not get encrypted when moved to the portable hard drive. I archive installers for the software on my PC on a flash drive. This I backup directly from the flash drive to the portable hard drive, again out of the rotation cycle, without encryption, and with two or three incremental backups for each full backup. I want to monitor the process. Thus, I do all this by manually initiating the backups, manually launching the encryption application, and manually moving the files to the portable hard drive. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
