Re:Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfi...
by _delirium on Saturday February 15, 2014 @06:12PM
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My strategy is:
1. Regularly back up "important" directories (code/, papers/, web/, etc.) to fairly safe/redundant cloud storage with incremental history. I have pretty little of this, <50gb, so it's not super-expensive.
2. Occasionally exchange bulk but less-important backups with my brother, so we're each the other's high-latency, questionable-durability "off-site backup". No incremental dumps here, just rsync. This is where my MP3 collection, DVD rips, and similar goes.
3. Photos, which are important but also bulk, go to Flickr, which is free.
4. Don't back up stuff I can re-acquire, e.g. big public datasets I've downloaded to work on, or Debian ISOs. Also, I don't back up the OS, just my data.
There do, however, seem to be some cloud services that offer big full-disk backups for a surprisingly low flat price, e.g. http://www.backblaze.com/ is $5/mo/machine.
1. Regularly back up "important" directories (code/, papers/, web/, etc.) to fairly safe/redundant cloud storage with incremental history. I have pretty little of this, <50gb, so it's not super-expensive.
2. Occasionally exchange bulk but less-important backups with my brother, so we're each the other's high-latency, questionable-durability "off-site backup". No incremental dumps here, just rsync. This is where my MP3 collection, DVD rips, and similar goes.
3. Photos, which are important but also bulk, go to Flickr, which is free.
4. Don't back up stuff I can re-acquire, e.g. big public datasets I've downloaded to work on, or Debian ISOs. Also, I don't back up the OS, just my data.
There do, however, seem to be some cloud services that offer big full-disk backups for a surprisingly low flat price, e.g. http://www.backblaze.com/ is $5/mo/machine.