Anthony Carrico <[email protected]> writes: > The bigger question is how to do the backup, once you have all this set up.
Indeed. I've given up trying to do whole-image backups. I have a daily critical-data backup (Mail, code repositories, dotfiles, "documents" and "important" folders, &c.), which does monthly fulls, weekly partials against the monthly and daily partials against the weekly. Nightly increments are scp'ed offsite, and as many of the weeklies/monthlies as will fit go onto two DVD-RWs (one local, one offsite) each week. This backup also has a bootstrapping file containing a symmetrically-encrypted copy of the public/private keypair used for the rest of the contents. I have a separate script, usually run weekly while I'm doing general backup stuff, that does incremental backups of large/static files (mp3s, pictures, mostly) onto an external 500GB drive. When that gets to be too much, I'll probably filter out MP3s that I have a physical copy of. Things like pictures are encrypted, things like mp3s aren't. I'll probably add to this static backup things like VM images that I've invested effort into. I'm sure as I accumulate photos and mp3s, that solution will break down (wow, RAW files from a 12MP camera are a lot bigger than the JPEGs I'm used to. :). I'll re-assess the state of the world at that point; maybe we'll finally have holographic storage, then. :) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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