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✔ New Year Resolution: Improve Backups
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<blockquote data-quote="Eduard" data-source="post: 610588" data-attributes="member: 986"><p>I took a quick look at the status and thought an update after a little more than 3 years might be useful. My original strategy has proved to be sound. The original premise was as follows:</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>A few months ago I moved my images to a mirrored (RAID 1) configuration utilizing a 6TB Western Digital My Book Duo. The reason for this approach was because I found myself being inconsistent with copying over to the NAS. Here is a screen snip of the WD config utility.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]247733[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>With this change, my process currently is:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Physically separate data from the operating system. (No change.) </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. No change but I am considering upgrading/replacing the drive.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Make a second copy of the data. (Changed to leverage the My Book Duo in RAID 1 config to have a second physical copy.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get a tertiary copy of the data offsite. (No change as I continue to utilize <a href="http://www.backblaze.com" target="_blank">Backblaze</a> to automate this process.) </li> </ul><p>The storage now looks like this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]247734[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eduard, post: 610588, member: 986"] I took a quick look at the status and thought an update after a little more than 3 years might be useful. My original strategy has proved to be sound. The original premise was as follows: [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] A few months ago I moved my images to a mirrored (RAID 1) configuration utilizing a 6TB Western Digital My Book Duo. The reason for this approach was because I found myself being inconsistent with copying over to the NAS. Here is a screen snip of the WD config utility. [ATTACH=CONFIG]247733._xfImport[/ATTACH] With this change, my process currently is: [LIST] [*]Physically separate data from the operating system. (No change.) [*]Implement some sort of automated copy/backup method. (In my case I use OS X's Time Machine with a USB drive. No change but I am considering upgrading/replacing the drive.) [*]Make a second copy of the data. (Changed to leverage the My Book Duo in RAID 1 config to have a second physical copy.) [*]Get a tertiary copy of the data offsite. (No change as I continue to utilize [URL="http://www.backblaze.com"]Backblaze[/URL] to automate this process.) [/LIST] The storage now looks like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]247734._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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