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I think this backup maximalism can be taken further. Say if it’s not one of many tapes stored offsite at an Iron Mountain repository, it’s not a backup. Or mult
by pram 5y ago
I think this backup maximalism can be taken further. Say if it’s not one of many tapes stored offsite at an Iron Mountain repository, it’s not a backup. Or multiple locations at that, can’t discount redundancy (what if one location gets nuked)
- romwell 5y agoOK, looks like many responses have the same misunderstanding here. To find out if something is a backup or not, ask a simple question: does the availability of the data on it correlate with what's happening to the system it's backing up? If the answer is no, then it's not a backup. Whether your tape storage gets nuked or not does not, in any way, correlate with whether your system gets hacked into, or whether someone who has a grudge against you messes with your system. Then P(data loss) = P(system is fucked) x P(backup is fucked). If your backup is not decoupled from the system, then P(data loss) = P(system is fucked) -- which is a far larger. You don't need to take your tapes to Everest. You just need to decouple them from the source. TL;DR: if you can destroy a backup from the system it's backing up, it's not a backup :)
- CJefferson 5y agoThis sounds like "no true scotsman". I back up to Dropbox and an external hard drive next to my machine. I've used both to restore my data on hard drive death. I can't imagine the amount of time and/or money it would take to do what you want. It certainly doesn't seem like it is something most computer users would do. I can set anyone up with a (for example) iCloud + time machine backup with very little work, and it will keep ticking over, backing up. What's your suggestion exactly?