Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by peterwwillis on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:01PM
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so you don't have a backup of any of your data?
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by blhack on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:47PM
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What do you mean?
There isn't really any data to be backed up here, except for the web dev things. For that, there are three servers that all exchange rsyncs every night. One is prod, one dev, and one that is just using some spare disk space on one of the arrays at work.
For the photos, the online stuff is the backup. The originals still live either on their negatives, or on SD cards.
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by whatusername on Friday September 10, 2010 @05:01AM
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You fit your photos on SD cards? wow. my 8GB card fills up pretty frequently.
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by blhack on Friday September 10, 2010 @01:51PM
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8GB sd cards are cheap, much cheaper than it would cost me to buy 1000 frames of film.
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by whatusername on Sunday September 12, 2010 @10:01PM
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oh sure. But TB hard-drives are cheaper still.
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
by peterwwillis on Monday September 13, 2010 @02:43AM
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online is not a backup. there is a reason we back up databases to magnetic tape, store them in remote locations, rotate tapes and test their integrity.
My pictures are all stored "in the cloud" (on facebook, or flickr, or photobucket). "My" music doesn't even really exist anymore, it is playlists on grooveshark, or stations on pandora.
Documets? Google documents.
I do all of my web development on VIM running VPSs.
The only stuff that doesn't happen "in the cloud" is specialized, media-creation type things, an activity that I would be surprised if more than 5% of the population participates in.