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I guess I'm a little surprised
screenxpress:
Over 85 looks at the post I made for Synchroncity the other day. Nobody made a comment so I guess nobody is keeping redundant copy backups. Or maybe y'all are sending stuff out to a "cloud".
I won't do that - (#1) - I'm too cheap and (#2) - don't like losing control of my data
Synchroncity is free (open source), is fast, and does a really nice job. I keep my "stuff" on one drive in the "box" (not the "C" drive) and then duplicated on an externally plugged-in USB drive.
I also have a docking station called "EZ-Dock"
http://www.kingwin.com/products/cate/docking_stations/ezdock_series.asp
that allows me to drop in (hot-swap) raw, uncased drives. I'll be making a 3rd backup (for offsite) this weekend after I pick up another SATA drive (they're so cheap these days).
It's probably my OCD, but I've had drive failures with all the major brands and I'm fearful of losing my crap.
tpitman:
Well, Wayne, I'll bite. I'm on a Macbook, using Carbonite, and while drive failures haven't been a problem for me, your involvement in IT is far more extensive than anything I'll ever approach, and it's not a matter of being OCD to recognize the value of redundancy in backup. To be honest, except for a couple of unsuccessful attempts at setting up a backup system over the years, the most expensive and futile being over $700 worth of JAZ drive crap in a moment of panic, quite frankly I never backed anything up. Dumb luck, I guess, but after 20 years of relying on a computer to make a living, I figured I'd cheated fate long enough and went with Carbonite, after considering setting up a RAID. I'm now considering setting up a simple backup drive on my desktop since Carbonite doesn't backup the system files, and for the convenience. I've got an unused Firewire external box with an 80GB drive in it, which I'll replace with something a little meatier, and use the backup utility Apple includes in the system software, that will back everything up. Just gotta crack my wallet for $50 or so.
squeegee:
I'm tying it as I still haven't found a satisfactory off-site solution.
I'm in the midst of prepping an external drive to mirror, does Syncronicity run a mirror 24/7 to your external drive? In other words is it automatic or do you have to initiate the backup each time you want to use it?
Gilligan:
I almost chimed in but I didn't want to rain on the topic.
I personally have a raid 5 server setup and I've gonna build another server off site and I'll be just using rsync to keep them mirrored. Probably the same thing that synchronicity is using for it's backend.
Like you I'm cheap, but I also don't like running a GUI on my servers and I'd rather have COMPLETE control over my data and that includes writing my own script to make sure things go where they should. I can also script in email/text messages to be sent out in case of failure. I currently do this for a few clients now and it's great!
screenxpress:
--- Quote from: squeegee on October 29, 2011, 09:49:08 AM ---I'm tying it as I still haven't found a satisfactory off-site solution.
I'm in the midst of prepping an external drive to mirror, does Syncronicity run a mirror 24/7 to your external drive? In other words is it automatic or do you have to initiate the backup each time you want to use it?
--- End quote ---
Well this is pretty good stuff, but obviously since it's open source, there are more powerful things (on the marketplace). You have to initiate it for the backups, but here's what I did. My biggest concern is my screenxpress folder for all the artwork, etc. It's one of the bigger folders so I made it a PROFILE of it's own. Then I gathered up all my other personal folders and stuff under 4 other PROFILES. Those are ones that I don't change that much.
When I've made significant additions or changes to anything in one of them, I initiate the profile to PREVIEW. Takes only seconds for it to gather and display the changes. Then I can opt to SYNCHRONIZE or wait till later.
It's not a RAID type setup so it's not automatic. In fact, for my setup, I'm not too real sure I would want something running all the time changing this and changing that.
The even nicer thing about this is with the EZ-Dock device, I can just drop a SATA drive into the block, run a Sync, pull the drive out and set it on a shelf. No electrical connectivity to the PC anymore in case a power spike gets past the protector or...even worse the internal power supply sends a spike to the hard drive as it's final 'gotcha'.
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