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MacBook Pro (mine), MacBook Air (wife's). Both backup important data to CrashPlan's servers and also use the CrashPlan app to backup everything to my home serve
by jasonellis 11y ago
MacBook Pro (mine), MacBook Air (wife's). Both backup important data to CrashPlan's servers and also use the CrashPlan app to backup everything to my home server.
The home server is running Windows 8.1 with SSD for OS drive, a 2TB drive with other data (movies, tv shows, photos, home videos, downloadeds, dropbox, etc). Four more drives of various sizes and models (gradually moving to 3TB+ WD Reds) are pooled together using DriveBender with duplication. This drive pool is where the local CrashPlan backups are stored, as well as occasional full disk images before OS upgrades. The server's own OS and data drives are also backed up to the drive pool with CrashPlan and to CrashPlan Central
All home photos and videos are also backed up to Google+ Photos. All documents are scanned, stored in Evernote, and shredded.
All of the computer backup is automated.
The photo backup is automatic, but organization takes my intervention. My phone and my wife's both upload 2048x2048 images to our Google accounts. They also backup full res images to my Dropbox. Once a month or so, I transfer the full res images to the home server and upload any good ones (of our son) to Google+ in full res to share with our families.
Document backup is a pain in the ass. I just collect a bunch of mail and documents on my desk and every so often I use my Fujitsu ScanSnap to scan it all and it automatically uploads to Evernote. Sometimes I label them by date, but I've been to lazy to do that lately, they get thrown in an archive notebook and I rely on search.
I think this pretty well follows the 3-2-1 rule.