[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[Brian MacLeod]

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On 2/4/10 8:43 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>
> You know, the original of that is:
> 
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with back up 
> tapes!


Hmm, I still prefer the speed and low latency of a Toyota nowadays.
It's killer.

(says the fiancé of a Toyota owner and current driver of said vehicle
thanks to previous experience with cars that determine their own speed)


*Now back to actual on topic content*

For actively used files that I need backed up, I'm using Dropbox.  I've
gone ahead and bought the 50GB account and am loving it.  I like that
tying my work desktop (Mac, with Windows & CentOS VMs also tied to the
account), home desktop (Mac), work laptop (Mac), and personal laptop
(Fedora and Windows to make TSA happy) gives me quick access to my
important files even if I lose one of those machines, AND, if the
Dropbox service dies, the machines still have their copies of the data.
 I've perused the website function, and can get a previous copy of a
file up to thirty days ago.

As for the more static/archival type of storage, I'm still working on
that.  I have been thinking of setting up some type of distributed
system between my family in NY and here, especially since the fiancée
has a huge download habit (Vietnamese subtitled Asian programs).


Brian


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