Did I fail to mention that I keep backups of my backups? I did, didn't I...
I am not paranoid, the odds *are* out to get you. --Doug On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > 1. Is your 3TB drive off-site? Offsite backup is the problem to be solved, > IMHO. > 2. I imagine that the probability that your 3TB drive will be alive and > functional in a year is less than 99.999999999% (not that I fully believe > Amazon's claims, but they do monitor their disks and move the data when the > error rate hits a certain threshold). > 3. If my data is off-site, I want it encrypted. I'm not sure how to do > that with rsync. We do use rsync nightly, however, to update our CTAN > mirror. > > --Barry > > > On Apr 8, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> wrote: > > Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is a > perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script, which > currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3 external drive: > > #!/bin/bash > > # Just in case they are not mounted > /bin/mount /mnt/3TB >&/dev/null > /bin/mount /mnt/Movies >&/dev/null > /bin/mount /mnt/Video >&/dev/null > > > # > #/home/roberts > # > echo "Starting /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup2.log > date >>/home/roberts/backup2.log > > /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude > /home/roberts /mnt/3TB >>/home/roberts/backup2.log 2>&1 > > > echo "Completed /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup2.log > date >>/home/roberts/backup2.log > > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >> My $.02 on Time Machine. >> >> I bought a 2TB time machine about 4? years ago and set up two MB Pro's >> with it. Other than a little irritation from accidental reboots on the >> device (connected to the same power strip as my flakey motorola internet >> service, yielding a reboot via powerstrip toggle sometimes), I've had >> nothing but good look. >> >> I've only had one occasion to do a full restore in an emergency and it >> worked like a charm.. I *have* used it to migrate between MB Pros and an >> iMac about 5 or 6 times in the same period. That has worked flawlessly as >> well. >> >> It might be prudent to back that up somewhere offsite, but I'm just not >> that prudent and now am spoiled to my regular "backup" and potential >> "restores" being almost entirely invisible to me. I can't tell from the >> discussion on the list how "transparent" the true cloud services are, >> unfortunately I'm pretty sure my totally lame internet would make *restore* >> a long and painful experience. >> >> >> - Steve >> >> I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive fail, so >> I had an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius' was very happy >> when he saw the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing was lost. >> >> About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac. The backups >> are in Amazon's S3, and the frequency is settable: I have one done every >> hour. You set a limit on how much space you want to use -- just as a Time >> Machine has a fixed size -- and once you hit that limit, it will overwrite >> the oldest versions as necessary. Also the paid version of DropBox keeps at >> least some history. For saving a Time Machine offsite, Amazons Glacier >> storage is one cent a gigabyte per month, so your 150 gigabytes would be >> $18 per year. They really hit you with transfer charges if you try to read >> a large amount in a short time, but since that presumably happens only when >> your Mac and your time machine have both been roasted in a fire, you >> probably will be happy to pay them. Unfortunately 150 gigs is not enough >> for most time machines. >> >> --Barry >> >> >> On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, "Robert J. Cordingley" < >> rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: >> >> So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud (or a >> Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any statistics on >> success rate? >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > *Doug Roberts > d...@parrot-farm.net* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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