[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:50:57 -0400
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> 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.

Lennart,

   Run a cron job.  My backups to Blu-Ray are manual.

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