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PC Backup: I dumped my PCs 18 months ago when I bought my Intel-chip Mac. Now both my "PCs" (XP development machine and Win2k3 Web Server) are running as virtual machines on my Mac, so my Windows install is actually just one big file used by Parallels which is backed up as part of the Mac backup.
--Jack
I just copy my /bin directory onto an 8GB thumb drive. Rotate once a week into fireproof box.
Why would you do this? Isn't /home where your data lives?
I only backup code and documents though. For other things it might not be such a great solution.
Mac backup: Last day of the month I run Carbon Copy Cloner to backup everything to a 500GB firewire external drive. (firewire, so that I can boot OSX from that image, if need be.) PC Backup: I dumped my PCs 18 months ago when I bought my Intel-chip Mac. Now both my "PCs" (XP development machine and Win2k3 Web Server) are running as virtual machines on my Mac, so my Windows install is actually just one big file used b…
Most days nothing's really changed in the folders I've selected for backup; when things do change it's usually just a new directory of pictures, maybe an mp3, and some new source code; the whole backup takes maybe a minute to run in that case.
All email mirrored from off site to local IMAP server once a day.
SuperDuper on macs to firewire drive once a week.
rsync and cron on FreeBSD to remote FreeBSD boxes once a day
No PC's so no problem there (for ever) ;)
Interesting question. I consider S3 with a front-end like http://www.jungledisk.com/ Does anybody have any experience with that?
Another big plus is that you can run an unlimited number of instances across any number of machines after paying a one time fee of $25.
Interesting question. I consider S3 with a front-end like http://www.jungledisk.com/ Does anybody have any experience with that?
Jungledisk is great. Its easy to use, cheap and runs on Windows, Linux (includes GUI and CLI) and Mac. You can treat is as a network drive or setup automated backups. The protocol is open so you can use tools like S3 Firefox Organizer to retrieve your data outside of the Jungledisk front-end. Another big plus is that you can run an unlimited number of instances across any number of machines after paying a one time fe…
It looks like the "Plus" service's block-level access and transfer resume would pay for itself pretty quickly with a reasonable volume of data ($1/month vs 0.10 or 0.18 per GB up/down), besides being worth it for $1 anyway.
All source material (.py, .psd etc) and documentations go in to local LAN subversion, Subversion is svnsync'd to a remote repository every 15 minutes. All email mirrored from off site to local IMAP server once a day. SuperDuper on macs to firewire drive once a week. rsync and cron on FreeBSD to remote FreeBSD boxes once a day No PC's so no problem there (for ever) ;)