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

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Post by sammularczyk » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:41 PM UTC

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.

Check the site. No sponsors/offers this year and we've taken steps to avoid what happened last time - our brand/logo is released under a loose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, and the content on the site is pretty much all Creative Commons.

We've got the Attribution/NonCommercial stuff in the logo license to protect against sites implying that we approve of what they're selling. We just want businesses using the logo FOR PROFIT to state that we don't endorse or promote their product. Everything else is free reign!

We definitely never intended to trademark/restrict the use of the term. We just got a bit over-enthusiastic with the legal side of things - now we're trying to put trust in the community instead (which, admittedly, should have happened in the first place).

If none of this makes sense, I'd be happy to explain it further

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

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Post by aroch » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:41 PM UTC

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.

With how the new AWS S3/Glacier storage works, you no longer have to do any calculations for restoring from AWS either

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

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Post by sammularczyk » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:42 PM UTC

andmarios wrote: post #2

Not sure why but this site makes my GPU and a couple of CPU cores working at a full load. I use Chrome 34.0.x.

Hm, really? No such issues here. Could it the transform-3D SVG animation on page load?

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

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Post by ciniglio » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

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…

Do you do anything to check against corruption (e.g. bit flipping)? I've been experimenting with md5deep recently to accomplish this, but it's a little time-consuming. I'd be very interested in hearing about more efficient ways of dealing with this problem.

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

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Post by IgorPartola » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 12:54 PM UTC

ciniglio wrote: post #24

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…

Do you do anything to check against corruption (e.g. bit flipping)? I've been experimenting with md5deep recently to accomplish this, but it's a little time-consuming. I'd be very interested in hearing about more efficient ways of dealing with this problem.

Just use ZFS. It works.

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

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Post by mercurial » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 1:00 PM UTC

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…

I have a terrible backup policy, where everybody's computer is backed up every monday morning on a local server using rsnapshot. I'm thinking regularly of find some decent online backup service which is amenable to receiving VM snapshots regularly before getting distracted and forgetting about it.

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

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Post by chimeracoder » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 1:08 PM UTC

I wish that they included options for Linux too.

What Linux backup tools do people use? Currently I'm making do with a bash script that's just a wrapper around rsync, but it'd be nice to have something a little more powerful, especially with the option to back up things to glacier, etc.

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

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Post by iancarroll » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #27

I wish that they included options for Linux too. What Linux backup tools do people use? Currently I'm making do with a bash script that's just a wrapper around rsync, but it'd be nice to have something a little more powerful, especially with the option to back up things to glacier, etc.

I use tarsnap for all my backups, but that's a service as well as a tool.

This is my daily crontab: http://pastie.org/8982530

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

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Post by BenC88 » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 1:24 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #27

I wish that they included options for Linux too. What Linux backup tools do people use? Currently I'm making do with a bash script that's just a wrapper around rsync, but it'd be nice to have something a little more powerful, especially with the option to back up things to glacier, etc.

I'm using spideroak. The Linux client is actually functional.

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

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Post by dirktheman » Mon, Mar 31, 2014, 1:29 PM UTC

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.

Okay, "expensive" might be stretching it a bit... But in my specific case it's a lot cheaper. If you have several TB of data/photos and/or want an impeccable UI, by all means, go for one of these!