Backup strategies will depend on life style. I used Home Server 2003 for
some time, but it had two disadvantages, (a) it tied up a machine, and
(b) I found it required as much attention as manual backups. I am often
up in the middle of the night, usually accidentally just when I set HS
2003 to back things up. As well, we don't always leave all our machines
powered up all night long. I was somewhat relieved when the server died
of old age.
I would opt for easily-transportable, bit images of the crucial
machines on one's LAN, and since they can be made in the time coffee/tea
is brewing, the jump drive solution is my own particular choice. I can't
see hopping around in the snow in my bathrobe carrying a desktop, while
the fire brigade puts out my home fire. I also use a 1-T USB drive, and
I can imagine grabbing it...it carries half a dozen bit image backups
made over a couple of weeks or so.
The various programs I have associated with my radio gear are fairly
messy to configure, and having a string of backups is useful when one
makes a blunder and destroys this tangle. Those backups are the modern
analog of the erasers on my pencils.
John Ragle -- W1ZI
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