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Home PC Backup Solutions
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For the bitchy techies.
FridgeMagnet
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On the subject of the thread, though, I'm all about online offsite backup these days. I have Time Machine running on the whole disc just in case, since it does work hourly and is stupidly simple to use, but for code, documents and other resources it's a combination of incremental backups to iDisk and rsyncing to a remote server, all daily. Also, I use Dropbox for all of my immediate projects, which keeps encrypted versions on S3 every time the files change.
(I even have my entire iTunes library backed up remotely with a utility called Bandwagon. That took a while to upload.)
If I was going to recommend a backup system for most users I would look at things like http://www.jungledisk.com/ which do it all remotely without you having to think too much. If you have statutory requirements regarding data security that make that sort of thing impractical and/or illegal, you should already know about that.
(I even have my entire iTunes library backed up remotely with a utility called Bandwagon. That took a while to upload.)
If I was going to recommend a backup system for most users I would look at things like http://www.jungledisk.com/ which do it all remotely without you having to think too much. If you have statutory requirements regarding data security that make that sort of thing impractical and/or illegal, you should already know about that.
Snapshots my dear.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
I'm not being bitchy, I'm just trying to point out the proper distinction between solutions for backup and those for maintaining data availability. They serve different purposes.
The question is about backup. Someone looking for a backup solution is not going to find one with a RAID.
A RAID may be part of a backup solution (as a disk staging point before the data is written to tape or streamed off-site) but that's getting into quite advanced territory.
Backup with no RAID is better than RAID with no backup for ensuring the long term integrity of the vast majority of your data.
The question is about backup. Someone looking for a backup solution is not going to find one with a RAID.
A RAID may be part of a backup solution (as a disk staging point before the data is written to tape or streamed off-site) but that's getting into quite advanced territory.
Backup with no RAID is better than RAID with no backup for ensuring the long term integrity of the vast majority of your data.
Perhaps if you stop giving incorrect info out...
What data do home users have that really necessitates a £700 backup solution?
Perhaps if you stop giving incorrect info out...
What data do home users have that really necessitates a £700 backup solution?
It's not incorrect information,. Don't listen to camp and finicky techies.
Relying on a single HDD to keep your data safe is utter madness.
You can get a decent solution for about 300 quid. My data is worth more to me than that.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Dull way to spend £300 quid though, my solution cost less then £80.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Made of fail if you don't have other backup provisions and especially if the snapshots disk is in the same location as your original data.
Disk-based backups to SANs and Virtual Tape Libraries is a solution to minimise downtime (keeping backup windows short and to aid speedy restores) in comparison to using tape directly. It's a good solution to a completely different problem.
If you can find a cheap tape-based backup solution* to compare it to and accompany it, then the point may have some validity. I think Idaho is hoping to get away with spending considerably less than £1000 all in.
Icing on the cake tastes nice, but it doesn't nourish very well.
Anyhow... Question to FridgeMagnet: Is the 15 cents per GB for JungleDisk a one-off payment?
* simple HD storage is approaching 1p per GB these days.
untethered
For industry & decency
JungleDisk is just a front end to Amazon S3. You pay S3's prices for storage and transfer:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
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