[CoLoCo] Best backup solution

[Jim Hutchinson]

Carl, Mike,

Thanks for the info. Restore looks promising but would I use the enterprise
or data center version? The idea of offsite S3 backup sounds cool too. I
never thought of that. I don't know that any of my data is so priceless that
it needs off site storage but I guess I'd rather not lose my family photos.
Most of my data is years and years of crap that I will probably never even
use again. I occasionally come across files from 10 years ago or more buried
in some folder and I still have floppies with stuff from college. If I was
motivated I would sit down and really clean and organize. I have multiple
copies of most things scattered over at least 5 hard drives and multiple
optical discs. At any give time and with a fair amount of effort I could
probably recover 90% of my data. I just want something that is much simpler
so I don't keep adding to the mess. Maybe someday I'll organize all this
crud.

-jim

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Michael Robbert <mrobbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> RAID isn't really meant for backup anyways. RAID 1 is good for high
> availability and just happens to protect against some HW failures, but
> if you get data corruption it will be on both drives and there is no
> backup to turn to. Not to mention there is no way for off site
> storage. i.e. What happens if your house burns down?
> Unfortunately I don't have any concrete suggestions for you since I
> don't do a good job with personal backups either. I use AMANDA at
> work, but that is really overkill for home use and is much more work
> to setup than any RAID. I would suggest looking into Amazon's S3
> service. It is a remote disk system that is dirt cheap. There are some
> tools built to access it for backup purposes. Jungle Disk is one that
> I've heard is very recommended. It is a piece of software that will
> backup your data to S3 with encryption so that you're the only one
> with the key.
>
> Good luck,
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:54 AM, TC <telecon at infosyndicate.net> wrote:
> > > Sorry we couldn't do better with your raid.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-linux-download/timevault-time-machine-for-linux-275399.php
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Well, we got it working. Something just got goofed up and it wouldn't
> boot.
> > I'm copying all the data right now to do a new install. I don't think
> I'm
> > going to mess with RAID again right now. Maybe someday when I learn
> more.
> >
> > Timevault looks like a cool idea but it doesn't look like it's anywhere
> > close to finished.
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> > -jim
> >
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