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Personal: CrashPlan. Backs up my personal laptop's user directory. I've excluded few directories like ~/Library. The speeds are really bad and their Java app s
by balladeer 10y ago
Personal:
CrashPlan. Backs up my personal laptop's user directory. I've excluded few directories like ~/Library. The speeds are really bad and their Java app sometimes makes me bang my head against the wall and almost always sets my laptop literally on fire. Thought of moving to BackBlaze many times but their version retention policy just doesn't click for me.
Out of this backed up data some are kept in my Dropbox folder (out of which some personal/crucial data are encrypted). And everything that goes into CrashPlan is encrypted on my machine. And yes, I've restored from CrashPlan and once in a while I keep testing some random folders and files to see whether they are actually up there in the cloud or not. I guess I should do a full restore some day (but given their speed and my geographic location it may take weeks or months).
I use SuperDuper! to clone my laptop's user folder on a 256GB portable hard disk (my laptop has 128GB) every 2-3 months or so and have instructed it to not remove the deleted stuff but add added stuff. I also copy my docs, pics, videos, and music to my 2TB portable hard disk regularly (and I keep testing it).
(edit: I've recently disabled auto-upload to Google Photos. Now I do it only for those photos that I want to upload form its Mac uploader app)
Work:
Code goes to our own gitlab setup, rest of the stuff to my company's Google Drive. Sadly we don't have some holistic backup setup at work. It's a startup. I had dropped an email to both IT and Engineering heads. They replied saying it was an interesting idea and they would look into it, I knew they wouldn't.
Going forward, I want to have my own BorgBackup or something like this (client side encryption, de-duplicated, compressed, kind of fire and forget solution) solution hosted on a small/mid sized VPS in place or CrashPlan/BackBlaze or along with these readymade cloud solutions. Something with a GUI would have been nice though. Something lightweight, minimal, but solid (BackBlaze's interface is awesome).