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Re:Code Spaces data and backups deleted by hackers by 6c6db4ab on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:34AM (#7914751)
> I used to do this to save the $6 and backup locally. Unfortunately, it stopped being practical once the backups hit 3-4 GB since they'd interfere with my internet access in the morning.

3-4 GB of data each day?

I backup data from my personal laptop to digitalocean droplet ($5 month) and then during the night backup droplet (which also stores my mail and other stuff) to the disc connected to raspi in my home. Incremental backup (rdiff-backup) takes literally 5 minutes (3 mins for /home and 2 mins for mail). And amount of data slowly approaches 9GB.

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Re:Code Spaces data and backups deleted by hackers by GrinningFool on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:35PM (#7919286)
The problem with incremental backups is that once data at the source gets corrupted, you lose it in both places.

Full backups are less efficient, but significantly safer.

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Re:Code Spaces data and backups deleted by hackers by opendais on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:42AM (#7915985)
> 3-4 GB of data each day?

It is just a snapshot of the entire database.

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