This question has been visited before, quite awhile ago. I was just wondering what people are using nowadays. For your personal computer and also for your work systems.
Ask HN: What do you use to backup your data?
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#2* Time Machine
* Carbon Copy Cloner (Weekly)
* Dropbox
* MobileMe to keep configs, settings, address book, et al. in sync.
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#3Time Machine and DropBox for personal stuff. Servers, remote hard drives, and DropBox for business stuff.
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#4Carbonite
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#5I have an old DDS3 tape drive and I use AMANDA (http://amanda.org) to back up some important stuff (databases, home dirs, config files). Since it's old technology, I've never had a problem finding a replacement tape drive or new tapes.
I also mirror a few of the most important things such as photos and git repos between different computers, just so I have stuff taken care of in case of flood/fire/tape failure.
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#6deja-dup.
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#7Locally I backup everything (Macs and PCs) to a 4-drive Windows Home Server which keeps data duplicated in case of a single drive failure. This also gives me the ability to stream media content to a variety of devices like my XBOX.
For off-site backups, I use the CrashPlan family plan on each of my machines.
This combination gives me the confidence that I'm covered in case of local machine failure, local drive failure and total loss of the local equipment.
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#8Can't speak for work for confidentiality reasons.
Personal: I use macs - so I have time machine running to a Time Capsule all the time. On top of htat, my photos, documents, and music folders are rsync'd from my main machine through manual scripts to a modest homebuilt fileserver on a fairly regular basis - usually whenever I dump a bunch of new photos in (because in the end, the photos are the really valuable part, and the rest just goes along conveniently) On top of that, about once a month I plug in an external drive and the same scripts back up the same stuff to a single drive, and keep it elsewhere.
THe laptop, which I use more often, but try not to keep critical data on for any longer than I have to: - Photos get moved to the main photo library on the main mac desktop (where normal backup takes over) - A bootable clone of the laptop using SuperDuper to a pocket drive. Usually ever few weekends, at least once a month - also triggerred if I dump some new valuable data on to the machine and/or am planning to put the machine at higher risk (eg: travel). Pocket drive goes offsite. - Also, with about the same frequency, a second superduper clone to a container file on a storage drive at home.
Rationale: backups are good. The most important thing I have are my photos - they are priceless and irreplaceable. Everything else I could live with out.
- While I keep multiple copies, I need to work out some kind of better offsite solution as well.
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#9I have BackupPC running on Linux on a headless PC in my laundry room. It does daily incremental backups (file-level dedup) of itself and my laptop over ssh. The important part, as with most systems, is that after the setup process it works with no intervention on my part.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to backup your data?
#10Mondo rescue and LTO3 tapes