All machines in my household get backed up to a home-built NAS. It runs low power inexpensive hardware that's plenty fast, along w/Linux Mint + Samba to manage the file shares. I preferred this since I've used Linux most of my life - I prefer avoiding learning new systems when possible, which is why I'm not running something like FreeNas, Synology, etc.
Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
#52Anything even remotely important gets printed out on paper. Even source code. I was burned once when one of my computers died and my NAS died while trying to recall the backup. On a semi-related note, I find it easier to read printed code and mark changes than to stare at the screen.
So do you print the source again after every change? And what happens to the then obsolete paper with the previous version? (or do they get version numbers?)
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#53Bitbucket for work backup and spideroak for personal files.
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#54Everything personal (local drives, Google Drive, Dropbox) goes to my Synology NAS, NAS is backed up weekly to S3. The best thing in Synology is that it solves this out-of-the box.
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#55I'd probably be what you'd call a digital nomad. I keep a Time Machine backup on a ruggedized external drive, and I use Backblaze. I've been very happy with Backblaze, if that's what you're asking about. Additionally, Google Drive and another external USB flash drive for a couple sensitive documents. I don't work.
well you probably don't have that much to back up then:)
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#56Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com ) and AWS. As close to set it and forget it that you can get. Process: - Local TimeMachine backups - Arq backup to AWS Glacier
I heard a lot of horror stories when people tried to get back data from Glacier so I decided that I'll use simply S3. Aren't you afraid of Glacier?
Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
#57Everything personal (local drives, Google Drive, Dropbox) goes to my Synology NAS, NAS is backed up weekly to S3. The best thing in Synology is that it solves this out-of-the box.
Oh and forgot, that server stuff is backed up to another server with rdiff-backup. Some years ago this was the quickest solution and until now never had any issues with it.
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#58I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive split in two equal partitions. One is dedicated to Time Machine backups and the other has full-disk disk-image backups made by SuperDuper!. The partition with disk images on it also has installer files for programs that I can't redownload on a whim.
Since I can only hold a few disk images on a 2 TB drive, I copy these disk images to a ProLiant MicroServer with a raidz3 (I've since heard this is a bad idea compared to mirror sets) to give me access to older backups in case my external drive dies.
I also use Backblaze; it backs up everything on the iMac and the external drive.
The laptop pretty much doesn't get backed up, but I don't have much state on there that can't be recreated with `brew install` and `git clone`.
Dropbox syncs some things, but I use SyncThing for syncing large files between my iMac, MacBook, and Windows machine. I also use a second SyncThing shared folder to keep my 1Password vault in sync between my iMac and laptop.
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#59Github for code and Google Drive for documents & photos. Google photos turned out as the best solution for photo syncing, sharing, simple editing (rotation with keybind) and unlimited free storage of pretty good quality photos. Google documents turned out as the most practical editor (cloud, sharing, all the basic editing commands). I am on the unix systems most of the time and I always find something missing in Page…
I have all kinds of dotfiles I'd hate to recreate from scratch. Mostly application configuration stored in ~/Library or /usr/local.
Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
#60Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com ) and AWS. As close to set it and forget it that you can get. Process: - Local TimeMachine backups - Arq backup to AWS Glacier
I used to use Arq but i wanted to pull a single 1KB file off it from a computer sitting next to me and the ETA I got was around 90 minutes. I deleted Arq and its backups after that.