hickinbottoms Wrote: > I use boxbackup to continuously sync my music (and anything I want to > back up), to a disc I've installed remotely at a friends house over > ADSL. > > ... > > It's saved my bacon in the past. Although I know a lot of people are doing automated syncs using any number of software solutions, I have a real problem with considering this a safe backup solution. It's not so much the sync part - it's the _automated_ part. For example: You accidentally delete a few folders of important data without noticing, the sync then deletes them on the "backup" copy. You're SOL.
Syncing is a nice, easy way to make backup copies, but I'd reserve it for manual operations only. It's best to have a very high level of confidence in the integrity of the original before you push it to your only sync'd copy. Now, if you can keep multiple generations of copies, automating the process isn't so unsafe, so long as you think you'll catch a deletion or corruption before all of the copies are overwritten. That's usually not an option, though, when we're talking about multi-hundred-gigabyte media libraries. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22161 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
