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Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by btgeekboy »

brookside wrote: post #49
tatotato wrote: post #17

Github for my contracts. My music collection sits on a server hooked up to my stereo. I had the disks in RAID-Z1, but when one of the disks pulled a Seagate I accidentally made the disks striped vedvs. To back this up, I boot up a rackmount server with larger disks in RAID-Z1 and use rsync. This is the only data that I really care about preserving. I found this out through changing my operating system a lot and havin…

I gleefully deleted my music collection after being back in the USA and able to use Spotify. Having access to a astounding quantity of music without having to maintain a library is so, so freeing.

I'm strongly considering this. I've got about 30-40GB of music stored locally (relatively small, I know), and I'm not sure why anymore. I tend to prefer mainstream music, so it's easy to find this stuff, and I've not listened to anything local in many years.

My biggest concern with deleting them would be forgetting about music that I previously liked. Seems like running `find` on my music directory would solve that.

Then again, with 30-40GB, I could just stick it all on a couple SD cards (for redundancy) and ignore them in a drawer.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by Rhapso »

paulcole wrote: post #67
Rhapso wrote: post #50

I own some land in rural TN, with a winterized trailer and access to spring water. that is backup water and shelter for minimal cost. A person/year of shelf-stable food (not fun, but indefinitely survivable) is about $1000. So if I am smart about it, and fall back gracefully, every $3k-$4k in savings is a year of "backup survival". I still need to make sure I have at least a year's worth of currency in a liquid form…

If banking fails your dollars are going to be in a world of hurt. Do you invest in gold/silver, too? Unrelated question, what part of TN is your unprotected, cash filled trailer in?

My general expectation is to the contrary. I think people underestimate how psychologically ingrained the dollar is into the american people. Money will still be worth something, maybe not as much as I like, but something. People have so much faith in the system, that everybody will be hedging against "when things get better".

Even then "failure of banking" does not have to be universal. Maybe my assets are frozen or other similar, localized issues.

In the grand scheme of things, gold is also likely to be difficult to liquidate. It does not really have any intrinsic value at this point.

As to where: On a hill, by a lake, surrounded by paranoid gulf war vets with lots of guns.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by bbcbasic »

Gave up on cloud backups. Takes too long on onedrive. Dropbox too expensive.

For personal I now use easeus todo on Windows. Keep a backup hdd at work and at home.had

For work I let them take care of it. I connect to VM and it's all backed up.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by zeroer »

mythrwy wrote: post #55
zeroer wrote: post #15

I'd probably be what you'd call a digital nomad. I keep a Time Machine backup on a ruggedized external drive, and I use Backblaze. I've been very happy with Backblaze, if that's what you're asking about. Additionally, Google Drive and another external USB flash drive for a couple sensitive documents. I don't work.

well you probably don't have that much to back up then:)

Heh, no. ;)

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by sean_patel »

tombrossman wrote: post #65
sean_patel wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Probably overkill, Yeah.. I was about to say. LOL. Have you even been in a situation where you had to restore?

Yes, I regularly test the backups by restoring a random directory to my desktop and then opening a few random files to test. For things like photos which don't change (as opposed to a document which may have been edited) I'll do a quick spot-check of file hashes as well. I'm picky about backups and have never had an issue where files were permanently lost. I'm to the point now where if I'm not sure I want a file I'll…

Storage is indeed cheap. I've just had a hard time figuring out how to set everything up and validate it. Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

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Post by dtjohnnymonkey »

maukdaddy wrote: post #38

Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com ) and AWS. As close to set it and forget it that you can get. Process: - Local TimeMachine backups - Arq backup to AWS Glacier

Arq + Dropbox

I used to back up to Glacier but I was already paying for Dropbox so I moved everything there.

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