[143623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: personal backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Sat Aug 13 02:26:14 2011
From: Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2liuxvqrr.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:25:35 -0700
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: khuon@NEEBU.Net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal
> backup.
Very good point.
For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a
portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage is a network
attached storage array running proprietary X-RAID (like RAID-5) with a
hot-spare drive. All my machines (desktops, servers and laptops) are set
to perform regular backups to the NAS. Offline backups are done to a
series of external USB HDs that are rotated into place for nightly
incremental and weekly full backups. Current retention schema is 4 weeks
of backups with a one week offsite physical rotation (performed monthly
to a safety deposit box). I'm at the moment trying to figure out a good
way for doing streaming backups to an offsite DC.
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