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About LinkBacksevery week,norton ghosting my drive....drive dead?
pop in new one clone it back....
every week,norton ghosting my drive....drive dead?
pop in new one clone it back....
Not really! I should do more, typically I back up important folders and documents like my uni work onto usb sticks but not everything.
Nah, no need. All my "important" data such as documents are stored in a dropbox folder, and everything else is redownloadable. Backups for personal use are overrated.
Git for my PhD stuff.
Daily rsync to a btrfs snapshotted storage drive for everything else (soon to be ZFS because btrfs is naff in comparison).
My most important data is usually in three distinct locations.
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Windows Home Server (£25) + HP Microserver (£130) = Joy
Yep, windows home server + 5.2TB of home built server = simple daily backup of 3 laptops and a desktop + duplicated server data + backup of server + joy of building a machine with a target of low power and near silence.Originally Posted by gagaga
Next problem is how to get data out of the house.
Add docs and photos are synced to a 100 Gb cloud account (TrendMicro SafeSync—rubbish client, but cheapest storage which you can get a massive cash back on via Quidco).
System drive is mirrored to a service partion on the data drive weekly by Acronis TrueImage.
ftfy.
FTFY, kinda.ftfy.
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Never been big on the shoehorning userspace problems into the filesystem approach.
Yup - having to do the flip-flop 1TB usb drive thing for that, but given that's the 2nd backup, I can live with missing a week or two.
Does that include a daily backup agent on the GF#s laptop that means when I drop her laptop I can put in a new drive and she doesn't notice?
*nix rules, but when MS get it right (admittedly,not often) they get it really right WHS1 is just awesome software for someone who can't be arsed doing at home what they do at work. Fit and forget, it just works. [Yeah, I don't trust the remote access either, use linux ssh tunnelling for that...]
Trying to figure out whether i want everything offsite, or just key stuff, recoded videos I can live without etc. I suppose I could keep the 'spare' drive in the garage, its separate enough from the house to probably survive.
I make very few backups these days, and I know I should make more. I'm getting more lazy!
Yup, the important stuff nightly to an external drive.
Should really set up weekly DVD backups as an extra layer of security, but haven't got that far, yet.
Did when I got my first PC but then got complacent and got burned many times when either hardware or windows got corrupt (probably both). Since then I backup roughly every 2 or 4 weeks to my NAS or when there's been a big change. I do like to burn to DVD as well (mainly documents, music & pics) simply because hardware can fail.
For the average joe public who buys a ready made pc or laptop, most manufacturers install backup software as part of the bloatware and when first used there will be some warning or setup wizard telling them to make a backup. But it's amazing how many people ignore it or don't even realise they've got a recovery partition.
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