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Re: Online backups

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Tarsnap is great for Unix platforms (I'm looking at it for a BSD server at  
the moment) but it doesn't run on Windows without Cygwin, which seems out of  
the question here. Truth is, backup is so important, so individual, and so  
complex, it's almost hard to give good advice on a generalized basis. My  
system consists of: all personal data running on a NAS, which I back up to a  
pair of USB hard drives every Sunday and store someplace physically far away  
from the machine. But my pictures and movies I burn to DVDs or CDs every few  
months, each time starting from the present and going back as far as I can  
while still fitting on the disk. That way there's always some overlap and  
multiple disks have part of that overlap, affording me some redundancy.  
Unfortunately, the things I most care to back up - pictures - take up so much  
space I can't afford to go for cloud storage, and it's not a great solution  
for me anyway for other reasons. If Cloud365 or whatever gives you some  
space, you may as well use it. You might also check out www.spideroak.com too  
for sensitive stuff you'd prefer to keep encrypted in the cloud. I use it  
too. And it works with Windows (and other platforms too).

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Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-17 08:24 +0100
  Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-17 15:44 +0000
  Re: Online backups "RS Wood" <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-18 06:36 -0500
    Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-18 11:55 +0000
      Re: Online backups RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-18 13:31 +0000
        Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-18 23:20 +0000
          Re: Online backups Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-09-18 18:37 -0600
          Re: Online backups Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-19 13:14 +0200
            Re: Online backups Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-09-19 12:51 -0600
          Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-19 15:43 +0000
            Re: Online backups Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-19 18:50 +0000
              Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-19 21:43 +0000
      Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-18 17:06 +0000
    Re: Online backups scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-18 16:27 +0000
  Re: Online backups Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-09-19 16:31 +0000
    Re: Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-20 08:03 +0100
      Re: Online backups Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-09-22 16:34 +0000
        Re: Online backups Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-22 19:28 +0100

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