On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:12 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup.
Very good point. For my laptops, nearline field storage includes my laptop's drive and a portable external drive. Online and nearline home storage is a network attached storage array running proprietary X-RAID (like RAID-5) with a hot-spare drive. All my machines (desktops, servers and laptops) are set to perform regular backups to the NAS. Offline backups are done to a series of external USB HDs that are rotated into place for nightly incremental and weekly full backups. Current retention schema is 4 weeks of backups with a one week offsite physical rotation (performed monthly to a safety deposit box). I'm at the moment trying to figure out a good way for doing streaming backups to an offsite DC. -- /*=================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@NEEBU.Net> ]=================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | -------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| NETWORKS | +==================================================================*/