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Re: What's your offsite backup solution?

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In article <ll8e77$g7a$1@solani.org>, RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>"OK, so the article was clickbait, and I'll stick with my current back-up
>solution: burning lots of DVDs, labelling, and then mailing them offsite in
>case my house burns down."

That's pretty much what I do for media files on my storage array, except I
use BD-R instead of DVD-R and bring the burned discs to work the next
morning to store in a binder in my office desk.

That's not an optimal method for backing up documents, however.  They're
stored with redundancy in the same storage array as the media files (which,
except for photos, are stored without redundancy), but I don't have a
consistent offsite backup set up for them.  Redundant storage has protected
them from disk failures so far.  They add up to less than 6 GB; maybe I
should set up a script to make an encrypted tarball and send the tarball to
cloud storage or my VPS or something.

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What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 19:44 +0000
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 19:48 +0000
    Re: What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 21:27 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 22:14 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-17 23:16 +0000
        Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-18 06:12 +0000
          Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-18 15:11 +0000
            Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-18 18:52 +0200
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-21 15:40 +0000

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