Offsite backup of large media files is just not practical in a working environment with normal consumer Internet connections and multiple projects.
I’m talking about final cut pro and ProTools multi track. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:03 Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reminder, Ralph, and glad you indeed had backups. > > On which subject... my top tip to friends, family, and even casual > acquaintances is *Backblaze* network backup. > > It's not a substitute for local and off-site direct backups. I'm sure that > as > professionals in an IT-related field we all have all those in hand. And > for > those with just a laptop rather than a big raid array etc all the > operating > systems now make it trivially easy (and cheap) to plug in a little USB > drive > and be backed up. But our less technical friends and family may just not > have > got round to it yet; and if they have - especially with a laptop - they > may > not remember to plug the backup drive in very often. > > There are lots of network backup options of course - I could never get > round > to setting it up for my family's machines because there were too many > options > to choose between, and surely I should go one of the free setups between > computers... etc. Too many options, result inertia. > > What makes Backblaze fantastic, in my opinion, is that they've cut through > all > of that, reducing to the absolute minimum the effort and choices required. > Go > to https://backblaze.com, click "try it for free", enter your email > address > and make up a password. It downloads a little installer - you run that and > you're essentially done. > > They bake your email/password into the installer so you don't have to do > anything else. After a while they'll email you to tell you how it's going; > eventually they'll email to invite you to give them your credit card if > you > want to keep going. There is a control panel, there are options, there are > other groovy features - but if you never know about or touch them you'll > still > be getting backed up. > > There are also no plans to choose between: it's $60/computer/year, > regardless > of how big (or how many) the drive(s) attached to that computer. > > Backblaze are very clear that this shouldn't be your first- or second-line > backup. They're right. But if I ask my spouse or child when they last > plugged > the backup drive into their laptop, I know the answer will make me cry. > The > fact that Backblaze will have kept running to the last minute they closed > the > lid is my sanity clause. When bad things inevitably happen - and of course > it > will fall to me to deal with it - I will be able to rescue their > undeserving > asses! > > I don't want to give you an affiliate link because I'd rather you got > backed > up than doubted the purity of my evangelism! If you're all covered, good > for > you. But if you're not, or if your cousin, colleague, or chiropractor look > like they need a clue - I think this is a very small amount of money to > increase peace of mind. > > Ben > > > On 19/03/2019 16:59, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: > > Just a reminder... On Win 10 my 2 TB Raid 1 array using 1.3 TBs > containing > > all my data, 3 dev VMs and all my source code was corrupted. It took a > very > > annoying day to replace HW(controller) and recover data/VMs from my > backups. > > All is back with NO data loss. > > > > As it has been said here before "Raid is not a substitute for backups". I > > have multiple copies with at least 1 off-line(crypto locker/power surge) > and > > 1 off-site(fire/theft). I don't use any cloud backups. Why? MySpace lost > 12 > > years of user data last year. Although cloud backup reliability is high > it's > > not high enough for me to bet my business on not to mention how long it > > would take to download 1.3 TBs. Although all my Mac data is an SMB to the > > Win Raid I still use Time Machine on the Mac so I don't need to > re-install > > components needed development. > > > > Stay vigilant my friends. > > > > Ralph DiMola > > IT Director > > Evergreen Information Services > > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode