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Do you actually do this? Or is it theory?
by javajosh 5y ago
Do you actually do this? Or is it theory?
- jliptzin 5y agoIt doesn’t really seem that hard. Buying a new hard drive and cloning data from the old one can be done pretty easily once a year.
- javajosh 5y agoNothing seems hard until you do it.
- saimiam 5y agoI agree. GP comment brings to mind the infamous reply to Dropbox Show HN which compared it to something users could trivially implement using basic Unix commands.
- WalterBright 5y agoI wrote my own backup software. Does that count? :-)
- NewEntryHN 5y agoThat's a lame backup frequency though. One year of data is significant loss.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoI add files to the new drive throughout the year. I keep the drive unplugged most of the time but periodically plug it in to add files. I still have a >1 year recovery point in case of fire, but less than that for more mundane data loss scenarios (accidental deletion, etc).
- WalterBright 5y agoI have more than one backup drive, and rotate them. I just protect myself against aging drive failure by rotating in a new one once in a while.
- WalterBright 5y agoYes. Newegg spams me all the time with offers for deep discounts on disk drives, and I take advantage.
- javajosh 5y agoOkay, so tell me: how do you do it? What are the error modes you've experienced?
- WalterBright 5y ago1. buy the drive 2. plug it into my system via a USB drive adapter 3. format the drive 4. run the program I wrote to copy the files I want to back up to it 5. unplug the drive 6. plug the drive in next time I want to do a backup 7. run my program again, which will only copy over changed files. You could use rsync if you prefer 8. unplug the drive Error modes? I've had disk drives fail now and then. I have a 10 lb sledge hammer I use to render it unreadable by anyone but the NSA, and throw it in the trash. Buy another one. I suppose I'm not really understanding your question. But it really is this low tech and simple.