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paranoid backup

2007-09-10 21:03:08

I am really paranoid about the type of thing you said. I ve heard too many stories of people s backups being bad and all-is-lost type of situation. With pretty much all of my life s memories being digital (I ve gone digital a long time ago, storing all receipts, photos, CDs, etc digitally) if I were to suffer a data loss I agree - it would be devestating and $10k would be cheap to recover it.

My backup plan is as follows:

1. My main home PC hosts most of the active data. I have a normal HD - no RAID as that can sometimes make data recovery more impossible - not to mention if you do striping and not mirroring it doubles the chance of one hard drive taking out all of your data. If I had a lot of money I would probably do RAID mirroring of some sort.

2. I have a linux server in-house that acts as a file server. I back up all music, documents, and anything else I can think of to this server hourly or nightly depending on the type of data. Backup is unencrypted.

3. I have a portable hard drive I plug in once a month and back up most things to. This is then stored in a fire-proof safe in my residence. This backup is compressed and encrypted in case it is stolen.

4. I rent a dedicated server to which I back up to. This backup is done daily and is encrypted; and is located fairly far away from me to give some separation for any sort of natural disasters.

5. I backup my photos manually maybe twice a year onto DVD. This is in the off-chance that someone sets off an EMP which manages to wipe out all magnetic storage devices. I told you I am paranoid.

6. I backup all other information such as USB Key Drive and Laptop data to my main PC which is then eventually moved to the other backups.

The main software I use to do all of this is called SyncBack SE

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbse.html

I highly recommend to all - you have not only scheduled backups but also backups based on when you insert a certain drive or other criteria.