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Interesting. 2013 and backup is still hard. What I do: I have one partition for all my important stuff. I rdiff-backup it regularely to different devices like

by itry 13y ago

Interesting. 2013 and backup is still hard. What I do: I have one partition for all my important stuff. I rdiff-backup it regularely to different devices like harddisks, usb-sticks and servers all around the globe. Feels pretty safe to me. Of course, if rdiff-backup has a bug or im using it wrongly, im toast. How do you guys do backups?

nknighthb 13y ago
> 2013 and backup is still hard. It really isn't. OS X actively invites you to turn an external HDD into a Time Machine backup target with one click. Windows 7 grew a less-prominent backup utility that works almost as well. I assume it or something like it remains in 8. Linux has a plethora of attempts at similar solutions but none has become a de facto standard. I just use duplicity on my servers.
- itry 13y ago
  > OS X actively invites you to turn an external HDD into a Time Machine backup target with one click. They dont offer it as a web service? Making people dabble with hardware sounds archaic.
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    Is this sarcasm, or are you truly expecting people to keep their only backups of critical documents on third-party servers? Not to mention the time and difficulty of a multi-hundred-gigabyte full system restore at typical American internet speed/reliability.
Zirro 13y ago
I use SuperDuper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com http://www.shirt-pocket.com) to copy the SSD in my MBP to a disk image on an external hard drive once every day. The content of this hard drive is mirrored to another hard drive. I also use Time Machine on yet another external hard drive, mostly for recovering individual files. And in case of fire, theft or some other sort of local accident, I have all my files stored with Backblaze (http://www.backblaze.com http://www.backblaze.com). This backup-setup has yet to fail me. I had a chance to put it to the test last month, and a few hours after my computer initially refused to fully boot, it was up and running as if nothing had happened after restoring from the SuperDuper! backup.

by itry 13y ago

nknighthb 13y ago

> 2013 and backup is still hard. It really isn't. OS X actively invites you to turn an external HDD into a Time Machine backup target with one click. Windows 7 grew a less-prominent backup utility that works almost as well. I assume it or something like it remains in 8. Linux has a plethora of attempts at similar solutions but none has become a de facto standard. I just use duplicity on my servers.

itry 13y ago
> OS X actively invites you to turn an external HDD into a Time Machine backup target with one click. They dont offer it as a web service? Making people dabble with hardware sounds archaic.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  Is this sarcasm, or are you truly expecting people to keep their only backups of critical documents on third-party servers? Not to mention the time and difficulty of a multi-hundred-gigabyte full system restore at typical American internet speed/reliability.

Zirro 13y ago

I use SuperDuper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com http://www.shirt-pocket.com) to copy the SSD in my MBP to a disk image on an external hard drive once every day. The content of this hard drive is mirrored to another hard drive. I also use Time Machine on yet another external hard drive, mostly for recovering individual files. And in case of fire, theft or some other sort of local accident, I have all my files stored with Backblaze (http://www.backblaze.com http://www.backblaze.com). This backup-setup has yet to fail me. I had a chance to put it to the test last month, and a few hours after my computer initially refused to fully boot, it was up and running as if nothing had happened after restoring from the SuperDuper! backup.