[143675] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: personal backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sun Aug 14 10:33:57 2011
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:33:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAFrZoh1OELUsTD1m3p5KjQqq0jOUy4FU38PV8w=qnTfdPS9Hzw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their siz=
e.
> > (~4.7TB).
> >
We (NAC) run a rather large ZFS thing to sell cheap 'scratch space.' When I=
say large, I think it surpasses well over 100 TB at this point.=20
So for me, it was easy. At home, my stuff spins on disk (nice big green dri=
ves, so relatively low power too) on a Win2008 Server box. So, I bought a v=
ery cool product, "Super Flexible File Synchronizer" which is unbelievably =
cool for what it costs. It can copy from anything, to anything, and has a g=
azillion options. I have what is called "synthetic backups" enabled, which =
is a real time (it watches at the OS to disk level), as when it sees a file=
change, it gets copied over the other side in a few moments. It does zip-b=
efore-copy (with encryption), it does revisioning, it does delayed deletes,=
etc..
Perfect for home.=20
