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

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Post by tjbiddle »

btgeekboy wrote: post #71
brookside wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

Keep in mind it doesn't need to be an overnight solution! Sign up for a streaming service you like, and subscribe to the music you want and delete your local copy as you go.

Unsure about Spotify - but Google Music allows you to upload your own collection as well.

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

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Post by dublinben »

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.

There's a lot of music that isn't available on Spotify. You also lose access to that "astounding quantity of music" as soon as you stop paying your monthly fee.

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

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Post by adiabatty »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #66
adiabatty wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to use Arq but i wanted to pull a single 1KB file off it from a computer sitting next to me and the ETA I got was around 90 minutes. I deleted Arq and its backups after that.

If you used Arq with AWS's Glacier, that is not Arq's fault, but AWS's; Glacier is designed to be (extremely-)high-latency. If you want low-latency restores, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000979 . I've restored small, individual files with Arq + GCS several times, and each time takes just a few seconds. All the other storage targets that Arq supports (Dropbox, S3, SFTP, Google Drive, et…

Should, yes. My restore from SFTP over a LAN was going to be about 90 minutes.

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

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Post by lobster_johnson »

adiabatty wrote: post #94
lobster_johnson wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you used Arq with AWS's Glacier, that is not Arq's fault, but AWS's; Glacier is designed to be (extremely-)high-latency. If you want low-latency restores, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000979 . I've restored small, individual files with Arq + GCS several times, and each time takes just a few seconds. All the other storage targets that Arq supports (Dropbox, S3, SFTP, Google Drive, et…

Should, yes. My restore from SFTP over a LAN was going to be about 90 minutes.

I've never used SFTP with Arq. Did you investigate it any further? I'm sure the author would love a bug report.

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

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Post by xfactor973 »

I can't promise this won't eat your lunch and pee on the floor but I've added a Ceph backed to preserve:https://github.com/cholcombe973/preserve I'll be adding integration tests with checksums to verify integrity this week. If anyone wants to build another backend I'd be happy to merge it.

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

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Post by theandrewbailey »

Work: A 1TB external enclosure. That's more for "oh shit my work laptop's SSD failed" backup. The real work is done on Bitbucket and a Google Apps account. I do not manage the servers.

Home: My home server has a 4TB main backup drive and a 2TB redundant drive (easily downloaded "safe" stuff, like steam, origin, gog backups). The 4TB drive is synced to 3 other 4TB external drives that I swap between home, work, and my parent's house (100+ miles away).

All encrypted of course, whether it's Bitlocker or LUKS.

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

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Post by shados »

I have a synology box with a pair of drives in RAID 1. That's not bad, but if something happens to that or my places goes on fire, well, I'll lose it all.

So I need a remote backup solution for it. I haven't found anything cheap and satisfactory yet...

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

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Post by fraXis »

alkonaut wrote: post #27

CrashPlan. Dirt cheap for unlimited storage for generational backups for 10 machines. Whole extended family fits in one subscription.

I also use Crashplan. For the price it can't be beat. Plus the upload speeds are very fast when compared to someone like iDrive.

However be warned, their client is a Java application and the more files and terabytes you want to backup, the more ram it takes.

For example, I backup about 3 terabytes on a server and it takes 3+ GB of constant ram usage to do this.

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Adjus...

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

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Post by fraXis »

slantyyz wrote: post #41

A combination of a NAS, Crashplan (I may be switching to BackBlaze) and occasionally burning critical data to BluRay discs for cold storage. On my work desktop I also do incremental Acronis images and Windows File History on local drives.

Why do you want to switch from Crashplan to Backblaze?
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