[ale] CrashPlan Home, cancelled

[Jim Kinney]

And for stuff that doesn't change (old financial records, etc) use
MDiskhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/2933478/storage/m-disc-optical-medi
a-reviewed-your-data-good-for-a-thousand-years.html
and keep a spare, known-good-and-reboxed CD drive. Park disk copies in
a locked box and bank safe deposit box. Use encryption on the files and
print to acid free paper the key/password/barcodes and store _those_ in
a sealed envelope at a trusted location noted in your will. Use split
keys and store the second half with a trusted person NOT noted in your
will but getting stuff (like your computer gear).
Use your OWN gear to back up YOUR data. Verify it can be restored in a
time frame that is acceptable. Do this verification at least biannually
so you remember the process. Any data you've never tested a restore on
is not important enough to back up in the first place. This lesson is
often learned the hardest way possible and includes the most pain that
can be imagined.
1. Client #1 claimed they would back up their own laptop and for me to
not mess it. He was the CFO of a growing 50+ person company. Laptop
hard drive died the same day he got the audit notice from the Federal
IRS. ALL, and I mean __ALL__WITH__NO__EXCEPTIONS__, of the corp
finances were on that drive.
2. Client #2 had their local admin - out of state home office - I was
local office admin and their backups WORKED - set up backups. Their CFO
fubbarred the books so badly she - grossly incompetently - just deleted
the entire accounting folder and went to restore from the prior day and
start over on her process. Restore didn't work. Backup tool claimed the
backups were good but the admin never tested the restore process. All
financial records for a 200+ person federal contracting company were
lost. The feds called a project audit later that day. For unknown
reasons the idiot admin didn't get fired.)
Unless you have stupid money to spend on lawyers, a tape drive is
cheaper.
On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:23 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Not perfect, but costs are well understood and the data never leaves
> your control ...
> 
> * Get a couple HDDs and a USB3 dock for backups.
> * Swap just the disks between home and work every week.
> * Use the one at home for daily, versioned, automatic, backups to the
> encrypted file system on it.
> * The one at work is your off-site backup from last week. Encrypted.
> 
> 8TB disks have been $160 this month, but 500G disks are probably more
> than enough for most "critical data" in a home.  500G was enough for
> over 10 systems here.  Just deal with large media stuff separately.
> 
> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
> going 70 mph on an interstate."  I know it is much greater than my
> Comcast links.
> 
> On 08/24/2017 01:34 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
> > BackBlaze is not being subtle about their willingness to take on
> > all the
> > people flocking away from CrashPlan, but that doesn't help us.  I
> > think
> > BackBlaze doesn't have a native client for Linux, though.  That
> > being
> > said, some people were suggesting standing up a Windows VM/Host to
> > collect backups from all your devices and then push up to
> > BackBlaze. 
> > That comes with some extra overhead on your own part for restores,
> > but
> > it does have the added benefit of backing up your whole network
> > while
> > only having to pay backblaze for a single machine.
> > 
> > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crashplan-alternative-backup-solutio
> > n/
> >  
> 
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

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