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Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by abcd_f »

nanch wrote: post #9
eps wrote: post #8

Did you mean Today is a made-up day to drive traffic to our highly prized Sponsors and Offers page That also used to be one Reddit's feel-good community projects until guy in charge filed for copyright and grabbed it all to himself. ? Yes, it's an excellent and widely recongnized holiday.

It looks like the WBD website got rid of the 'deals' page this year. If you're not a fan of the trademark on World Backup Day™, we have another trademark-free event called Backup Week. :) https://backupweek.com/the-road-to-backup-week World Backup Day™ does not endorse and is not associated with Backup Awareness Week

You are exactly the same, except you call it the "Deals $" page.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by deanclatworthy »

jreed91 wrote: post #10
deanclatworthy wrote: post #3

A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup: http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back... For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.

Has anyone created a backup app that interfaces with glacier?

Arq works quite nicely with Glacier: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2012/11/arq-cloud-backu...

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by [deleted] »

jreed91 wrote: post #10
deanclatworthy wrote: post #3

A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup: http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back... For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.

Has anyone created a backup app that interfaces with glacier?

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Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by qwerta »

eps wrote: post #8

Did you mean Today is a made-up day to drive traffic to our highly prized Sponsors and Offers page That also used to be one Reddit's feel-good community projects until guy in charge filed for copyright and grabbed it all to himself. ? Yes, it's an excellent and widely recongnized holiday.

I think in this case it is more important they remind people of an important issue. Most people do not have any sort of backups.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by nanch »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #12
jreed91 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone created a backup app that interfaces with glacier?

Arq works quite nicely with Glacier: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2012/11/arq-cloud-backu...

And they have a special discount for Arq 4 today.

https://store.haystacksoftware.com/?product=arq4&c=YAH4KD2AT...

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by qwerta »

Lets talk about something exiting for a change, what is your personal backup policy? Here is mine:

- I backup my online accounts every two weeks. Google has full export including GMail: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788?hl=en . For some websites I use scripts to do website mirroring.

- I make full phone backup every two weeks

- I have incremental daily backups inside computer. So I have daily snapshots of my data for past 5 months.

- I have two USB harddrives, I make full backup 2x a week, every time on different USB hdd.

- online store where I backup every week (slow internet connection)

- and there is a physical off-site backup I do once a month

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by deanclatworthy »

dirktheman wrote: post #5
deanclatworthy wrote: post #3

A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup: http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-back... For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.

Crashplan or backblaze are very user-friendly, but rather expensive, too. As a cheaper alternative, you can use Amazon Glacier. It costs mere pennies a month. ($0.18 in my case, where I would spend over $5.00 a month at crashplan/backblaze). However, AWS will charge you a lot more if you ever need to get your data back in a hurry. As a last resort solution (for instance my house burns down and my off-site external ha…

I considered the same thing. But when you are backing up several terabytes of photos and home movies collected over many years the cost of storing them on Glacier isn't as cheap as using the unlimited service of Crashplan or Backblaze ($10 a month vs $5-6 month). Furthermore, Crashplan and Backblaze don't charge you to retrieve your data unlike Glacier, which is where it gets very expensive.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by mhurron »

qwerta wrote: post #16

Lets talk about something exiting for a change, what is your personal backup policy? Here is mine: - I backup my online accounts every two weeks. Google has full export including GMail: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788?hl=en . For some websites I use scripts to do website mirroring. - I make full phone backup every two weeks - I have incremental daily backups inside computer. So I have daily snapshots o…

What's a backup?

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by nakedrobot2 »

nodata wrote: post #7
dirktheman wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crashplan or backblaze are very user-friendly, but rather expensive, too. As a cheaper alternative, you can use Amazon Glacier. It costs mere pennies a month. ($0.18 in my case, where I would spend over $5.00 a month at crashplan/backblaze). However, AWS will charge you a lot more if you ever need to get your data back in a hurry. As a last resort solution (for instance my house burns down and my off-site external ha…

Crashplan and backblaze are not rather expensive, they're cheap. Five bucks a month and you don't have to do any complicated calculations when you want your data restored.

... and at $5/month, if you're a photographer with many terabytes of data, it is 1/10 the cost of amazon glacier, last time I checked!

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by GrumpySimon »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #17
dirktheman wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crashplan or backblaze are very user-friendly, but rather expensive, too. As a cheaper alternative, you can use Amazon Glacier. It costs mere pennies a month. ($0.18 in my case, where I would spend over $5.00 a month at crashplan/backblaze). However, AWS will charge you a lot more if you ever need to get your data back in a hurry. As a last resort solution (for instance my house burns down and my off-site external ha…

I considered the same thing. But when you are backing up several terabytes of photos and home movies collected over many years the cost of storing them on Glacier isn't as cheap as using the unlimited service of Crashplan or Backblaze ($10 a month vs $5-6 month). Furthermore, Crashplan and Backblaze don't charge you to retrieve your data unlike Glacier, which is where it gets very expensive.

Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan is ~150 USD/year for up to ten computers, unlimited.

It's a lifesaver. I've installed it on my parents/wifes/siblings computers and the piece of mind it gives me is immense - when I get the inevitable phone calls about the damn computer deleting that important file, I can either tell them how to recover it, or do it myself.

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