søndag den 29. august 2010

My backup setup 3

In a previous posting I defined my 3 kinds of data. In this posting I will tell how I back it up:
  1. Okay to loose.
    (see previous posting)
  2. Harder to replace.
    Nothing exists without at least 2 copies at different locations, which is also true for this data. I have one copy at home on 4 small harddrives and a single encrypted harddrive at work with the same data. When I make an update to the one at home (which is not often) I will bring the one at work home and update that one. In this case I am protected against fire etc. and in some degree protected against drive failure. Because I don't check them often, there is still a significant risk that I might loose everything some day.
    For that reason, I ought to have it on a NAS at home, but then I'll have to buy another NAS and two harddrives.
  3. Ireplaceable.
    (see next posting)

lørdag den 14. august 2010

My backup setup 2

In the previous posting I defined my 3 kinds of data. In this posting I will tell how I back it up:
  1. Okay to loose.
    This data I store on my NAS - see previous postings about a NAS. It protects me resonably from drive crash, but theft, fire, flood, human error etc. is not covered. However, it is still a very cheap way to have copies of a lot of data on two drives which is often updated.
  2. Harder to replace.
    (see next post)
  3. Ireplaceable.
    (see future post)