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...and this is why we include a 'backup technology' question in our technical interviews--where 'offsite backup' must follow with something like "possibly the m
by l0c0b0x 11y ago
...and this is why we include a 'backup technology' question in our technical interviews--where 'offsite backup' must follow with something like "possibly the most important type of backup because..."
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoYou know the sad thing is that even this isn't idiot-proof and needs to be qualified. One of my customer's brilliant "cost-saving" measures was to have an offsite backup solution that was basically an rsync script that ran every 15 minutes. So when someone on their end did something catastrophic to their data and it took them an hour to notice, they were incredulous that we couldn't help them restore their data even though it was "backed up offsite!" because their "backup" solution had already caught up and duplicated the broken data.
- ansible 11y agoAnd that's why if you're using rsync, you ought to be using rsnapshot instead, and have generations of backups so that you are not overwriting your most recent one.
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoI find rdiff-backup is great as a drop-in replacement.
- cyphar 11y agoYeah, a copy is not a backup. It's a mistake too many people make. You need to have historical backups.