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Your comment made me wonder if there's anyone out there with regularly-taken long-persistence (tape, optical media, etc.) backups in their personal basement. I

by ethbr0 4y ago

Your comment made me wonder if there's anyone out there with regularly-taken long-persistence (tape, optical media, etc.) backups in their personal basement. It seems a very specific Venn intersection to utilize technology to a high degree, but also to imagine and prepare for its worst case failure. Maybe the NZ tech-prepper crowd?

bombcar 4y ago
There are dozens of us! I make regular yearlies that go "basement" and never get overwritten. Has come in useful very rarely, maybe it was worth the cost?
- ethbr0 4y ago
  What media? Curious!
  - bombcar 4y ago
    I use RDX removable drives, actually, treat them as hard drives.
james_a_craig 4y ago
I keep an LTO tape robot around for just exactly that reason. I trust backblaze, but I don't trust them to the point of not writing off a weekly/monthly/yearly tape set.
bigtunacan 4y ago
A company I previously worked at (self-hosted) all production servers were RAID 5, plus continual cloud backups, with nightly backups that rotated weekly and monthly backups that were shipped out of state and stored in a disaster recovery facility in the event of a total catastrophe (earthquake, hurricane, etc). The off-site backup storage was required by several of our largest customers due to the critical nature of our software.