[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Apr 27 22:50:57 EDT 2020


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:05:31PM -0400, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
>    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.  

If it's only in one location, you have no backup. :)

If it has to be manually connected and manual steps taken, most people
will not remember to do it.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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