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Dropbox solved everything backup related for me, and I love it.
On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-... http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/dropbox-backup-bouncer-t... (Disclaimer -- I write backup software: http://haystacksoftware.com/arq/ )
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Absolutely agree. Only problem: getting the 100gb option is too expensive for me (for now), which is a shame. Also, I'd love it if they had a much larger size as well, so I can quietly back up everything without worrying about space.
Currentlig using 60% of my 51GB. I've got all workrelated files there (I'm a webdesigner), my music and a folder of collected inspiration. No videos.
How is your data backed up? ... [X] I use Tarsnap ... Where's the "I am Tarsnap" option? Somewhat related: Are the responses to this going to be made public somewhere? I'd love to see what they look like (for obvious reasons) and was thinking just last week that maybe I should post a survey to HN and Reddit.
Lol. I knew it was you as soon as I saw "I use tarsnap" as the only one checked. I love Tarsnap. I use you for a lot of very-critical-yet-small files. My personal pain point is that I'd like to back up a few TB of data but can't afford to--it would be nice to back up an entire workstation. I'm interested in seeing if that's a sentiment that others share, or if it's just me.
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On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-... http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/dropbox-backup-bouncer-t... (Disclaimer -- I write backup software: http://haystacksoftware.com/arq/ )
What does this mean for regular people?
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My personal pain point is that I'd like to back up a few TB of data but can't afford to--it would be nice to back up an entire workstation. Why do you have a few TB of data on a workstation? What sort of work are you doing?
I'm not the OP but I'll add my datapoint here. I have that just because of digital photography. My current 12MP camera fills up a 16GB card easily if I am covering a 2-3 hour event for some friend. That adds up fast. Right now I do a versioned rsync to a server I host myself that has a (just upgraded from 1TB) 4.5TB RAID5 array. That was ~400$ in disks when I upgraded. Even at the current ~1TB usage that would be 360…
It would be awesome if Amazon offered something analogous to a single offsite automagically-expanding RAID volume for a lot less money than S3.
How is your data backed up? ... [X] I use Tarsnap ... Where's the "I am Tarsnap" option? Somewhat related: Are the responses to this going to be made public somewhere? I'd love to see what they look like (for obvious reasons) and was thinking just last week that maybe I should post a survey to HN and Reddit.
I'm hoping that the results are made public they'll be anonymised at least somewhat.
Missing option is impact on the computer while I'm using it. All of the transparent services (especially Time Machine) that I have experience with are abysmally bad at turning themselves off when the machine is being actively used.
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Lol. I knew it was you as soon as I saw "I use tarsnap" as the only one checked. I love Tarsnap. I use you for a lot of very-critical-yet-small files. My personal pain point is that I'd like to back up a few TB of data but can't afford to--it would be nice to back up an entire workstation. I'm interested in seeing if that's a sentiment that others share, or if it's just me.
My personal pain point is that I'd like to back up a few TB of data but can't afford to--it would be nice to back up an entire workstation. Why do you have a few TB of data on a workstation? What sort of work are you doing?
This is definately a pain point of mine. Luckily, the data doesn't change often, and if I needed to restore from data loss it doesn't need to happen ASAP. So I'm thinking just saving the data to seperate hard disks and storing those in a safety deposit box will fulfill my needs.
Does that sound right? Or am I missing some large dangers in this solution? (I'm pretty new to this stuff)
"The biggest problem with backups is" Missing option is impact on the computer while I'm using it. All of the transparent services (especially Time Machine) that I have experience with are abysmally bad at turning themselves off when the machine is being actively used.
How's that for low impact.
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Currentlig using 60% of my 51GB. I've got all workrelated files there (I'm a webdesigner), my music and a folder of collected inspiration. No videos.
I'm also on about 50% of my 50GB. The thing is, I'd rather dump everything in there and not worry about what is and is not "critical".