You may wish to think about things like: How do you classify the data? Examples might include family pictures, media, documents you've created/found (maybe these are the same class, maybe they are different) How difficult is it to replace certain kinds data (time spent, $ spent, necessary equipment). How many copies you want? Where you want copies (on-site, off-site, cloud, etc)? How you wish to validate data? How often you wish to test restoration?
There may be some things you come up with that aren't part of this list. All of these will lead you towards determining what your requirements are. Once you have the list of requirements, you should figure out what the priority is for them. Once you have this, you can start looking for solutions. You may discover along the way that you have (for example) 2 very different classes of data, and those classes have substantially different requirements. You might choose to go with 2 different solutions, 1 for each class of data. > On Dec 22, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > On 12/22/2018 08:45 AM, David Fleck wrote: >> On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 08:04 -0600, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>>> Any recommended survey articles? >>> >>> Surveys about what? >> Backups. > > My search had been > https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=file%20backup%20methods > > The hits were either too brief or too focused on only one aspect. > > I am looking for reading that will prompt me to ask the "right" questions to > chose, > > I browsed some pages on rsync and dirvish. > That reinforced my idea that I need to "survey the lay of the land before > choosing a specific application. > > >> Personally, I have a script that uses rsync to copy files to an >> otherwise-unused desktop machine's hard drive. It works for me, but I doubt >> it's anything near a 'best practice'. >> -- >> David Fleck <dcfl...@protonmail.ch> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org <mailto:lou...@cryptomonkeys.org> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
