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✔ New Year Resolution: Improve Backups
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<blockquote data-quote="Eduard" data-source="post: 259120" data-attributes="member: 986"><p>I know that backups and file retention have been discussed in various threads, but I thought I'd start a new one. I'm a <a href="https://drii.org/certification/mbcp.php" target="_blank">certified</a> continuity and recovery person and realized that I had become a little lax in my personal practices. I made a New Year's resolution to clean up my act. I hope this discussion may help others to not lose their own data.</p><p></p><p>The key to retention is <em><strong>redundancy</strong></em>. All media <strong>will</strong> fail. If you can accept that premise and act on it, you have a great start. Using this as a starting point, what is a prudent approach to ensuring you don't loose your stuff? Multiple copies in multiple locations is the key.</p><p></p><p>Here is my method:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Physically separate data from the operating system. (This is prudent whether you use Windows, OS X, Linux or any other operating system.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Implement some sort of automated copy/backup method. (In my case I use OS X's Time Machine with a USB drive.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make a second copy of the data. (In my case I periodically copy files to my RAID 1 enabled NAS.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get a tertiary copy of the data offsite. (I recently implemented <a href="http://www.backblaze.com" target="_blank">Backblaze</a> to automate this process.) </li> </ul><p>What ever backup method(s) you use, you <strong>must</strong> test it!!! You may not go to the extremes that I do (I recently pulled a drive out of my NAS and rebuilt the mirror), but making sure you know <strong>how</strong> to recover is an often overlooked step in a good approach.</p><p></p><p>Below is a Mac representation of implementing physically separate OS and data drives as well as Time Machine.</p><p></p><p>So what process do you use?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]70664[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 259120, member: 986"] I know that backups and file retention have been discussed in various threads, but I thought I'd start a new one. I'm a [URL="https://drii.org/certification/mbcp.php"]certified[/URL] continuity and recovery person and realized that I had become a little lax in my personal practices. I made a New Year's resolution to clean up my act. I hope this discussion may help others to not lose their own data. The key to retention is [I][B]redundancy[/B][/I]. All media [B]will[/B] fail. If you can accept that premise and act on it, you have a great start. Using this as a starting point, what is a prudent approach to ensuring you don't loose your stuff? Multiple copies in multiple locations is the key. Here is my method: [LIST] [*]Physically separate data from the operating system. (This is prudent whether you use Windows, OS X, Linux or any other operating system.) [*]Implement some sort of automated copy/backup method. (In my case I use OS X's Time Machine with a USB drive.) [*]Make a second copy of the data. (In my case I periodically copy files to my RAID 1 enabled NAS.) [*]Get a tertiary copy of the data offsite. (I recently implemented [URL="http://www.backblaze.com"]Backblaze[/URL] to automate this process.) [/LIST] What ever backup method(s) you use, you [B]must[/B] test it!!! You may not go to the extremes that I do (I recently pulled a drive out of my NAS and rebuilt the mirror), but making sure you know [B]how[/B] to recover is an often overlooked step in a good approach. Below is a Mac representation of implementing physically separate OS and data drives as well as Time Machine. So what process do you use? [ATTACH=CONFIG]70664._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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