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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.
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Yeah, would have loved to have something for all platforms... Haven't used Linux in a long time so I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with it all. Did try to do some research but couldn't find a solution that would cover all distros. Next year, with more time, I'll try and add something there!
> but couldn't find a solution that would cover all distros. For your purposes, it would be fine to post something that works on Ubuntu as long as you can verify that it's not Ubuntu-only (if it's open source and works on at least two distros, chances are it works on any distro)[0]. [0] Heck, even most things that are made for Ubuntu work on other distros with minimal modification - it's just a matter of convenience.
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I'd like to use the Crashplan Family option to cover everyone but since it's all shared and there's seemingly no way to silo the data per-computer, that's a total non-starter. Which is a shame because I'd love to give them my cash.
Just get an individual account for that purpose?
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.
duplicity to S3 here. I'd like to eventually figure out how to point duplicity to Glacier. And of course it'd be nice if GPG supported some more modern cyphers and modes, but it's Good Enough(tm).
I have a folder in one of my buckets, for example, that I call "archive". I put in there anything I want to store on Glacier long-time. With my lifecycle settings, objects in that folder are automatically moved to Glacier after one day.
I can't afford 10 more terabytes of space to create a backup right now. Guess I'll just pick 50gb of non video content to back up. Also what is the basis for the claim that 33% of people have never backed up anything? It seems like it would be far higher than that, but I'm not really sure what they consider having done a backup. Copying a picture off your camera to your computer might be considered a backup to them.
Not to mention, "29% of all disasters are caused by accidents". What on earth are the rest caused by? I'm sure a few are caused by malice, but I strongly doubt that it's 61%.
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.