[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

Gron Arthur gron.arthur at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 22:18:33 EDT 2020


I have a backup drive, but I'm thinking it would be better to store
personal files at a second location.   About 200-300GB in total.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:05 PM Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:02:45 -0400
> Gron Arthur via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> > I'm looking for an easy way to backup data? What's good software to
> > use, preferably open-source, better if it had a GUI?
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>    Why not buy a second hard drive?  My nightly backup is a 4TB drive. "Personal" means the data does not leave my house.  I export my backups periodically to a 50GB Blu-Ray disc.  My backup is a Bourne shell script that eventually calls up tar.
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