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This is not answering the question, but someone please build this for me (and hopefully a million others): Simple live off-site backup for worst-case scenario. I buy a pair of devices (e.g. Tonidos) with attached commodity HDDs that I split with a friend. He plugs his into his network, I plug mine in. I dump files to my local device, but they actually get buffered and then stored overnight at his place, and vice-vers…
http://rajiv.sg/blog/2012/11/19/configuring-os-x-mountain-li...
Never made it on HackerNews, but many people have found it useful.
Since both my wife and I use either Mac or Linux based laptops I have a quick and dirty shell script that gets fired off by hand at the end of the day. The script uses rsync and cpio to copy all files in the laptop's home directory onto a machine running debian packed with 4 1TB drives in a RAID5+1 spare configuration. The script uses hard links to keep daily increments without consuming disk space and goes something…
1. I keep working data on my laptop, and archived data/media on a desktop machine in my home. 2. Both are backed up to Time Machine to a network drive, and also with Arq to Glacier. 3. I keep important documents in Dropbox. This gives me "Oh shit, I deleted a file" protection from Time Machine and Dropbox, two local copies of all media and data in case of hardware failure or machine loss, and a last-ditch offsite Gla…
On my servers, every virtual machine is on an encrypted block device, so the data is already encrypted when it's written to the disk. Then I use Shasplit [1] and Rsync for efficient incremental backups. Restoration is a simple "cat" invocation (or use Shasplit for that), and I get back a full, running, encrypted VM with everything.
New back up method: 1. Back up everything with Deja Dup to $25/year, 50GB VPS daily - I don't have a lot of data. 2. Back up everything with Deja Dup to external drive monthly (maybe going to weekly).
Edit: All photos are resized monthly with a script to create a ~100KB copy that lives on my laptop and phone. I can see all photos I've ever taken on my phone, but still have the full-res copy backed up.
This is not answering the question, but someone please build this for me (and hopefully a million others): Simple live off-site backup for worst-case scenario. I buy a pair of devices (e.g. Tonidos) with attached commodity HDDs that I split with a friend. He plugs his into his network, I plug mine in. I dump files to my local device, but they actually get buffered and then stored overnight at his place, and vice-vers…
I think Crashplan's software will do this without you paying them a sub.
For my laptop: I use backblaze for everything. I have timemachine setup on a small server (running zfs and snapshotting). I also use arq to backup more important stuff an extra time to S3. For servers with data, which currently is just postgres - Heroku pg backups. We download, verify and archive them on S3 and to local server.
Are you talking about the Apple Time Machine app here? I'd be curious to hear about your setup if so. Right now I'm using time machine to a USB attached HDD, because my last foray into network attached volumes + time machine (using linux/samba as the volume host) was pretty painful.
I also like the idea of ZFS and periodic array scrubbing to detect invisible failures, which most RAIDesque configurations ignore.