Backups - Was: Help, my disk array has one dead member

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 11:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I backup all my data to external USB HDDs, this is better than
> nothing

There are six principles in the second half of this blog post:

http://biplane.com.au/blog/?p=359

Anything less than the first two items is effectively no backups. If
you are in business, you need the first four as a minimum. If you are
responsible to others for the safe keeping of data, you must have the
first five. The sixth - automation - is a good idea for anyone, and
pretty much essential for business.

How you achieve these principles is almost irrelevant. The usual
guiding principle is speed of recovery or ease of management.

Regards, K.

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