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Affordable and Safe Data Protection Practices?
cfreeze asks: "With the recent fire at the University of Twente, I started to think 'Are the steps I'm taking to backup my home network sufficient?'. The first thing going through my mind was the need to mail a set of recent backup discs to a family member. I feel this is a good first step, but due to the distances involved it may prove to be impractical. The second was a small hidden personal safe that is fireproof. What steps are you taking?" If you are interested in truly protecting your data, you have to realize that making backups is just a start. Next comes protecting those backups from floods, fires, and other catastrophes that might occur. What do you do to protect your backups?
What do you do to protect your backups?
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I use the squirrel method, hiding my data on the drives of unsuspecting dupes all over the internet.
Unfortunately, I can't remember where all of these bits are, so if my primary system gets messed up I am going to be dataless
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
That's nothing compared to what happened to the Univeristy of One through the University of Nineteen. Let's hope they realize their mistakes with the release of the University of Twente-One
Pad your data into some porn movie and you will have loads of copies floated around the internet.
Most tape backup programs have a verify setting too, but that takes so long.
/dev/st0 with /dev/null. I think GNU tar actually has code that detects when it is writing to that device to make things so even faster.
I found it even quicker to replace
You're new around here, aren't you?
Then you play the little exhange game. Your data for my data. You want your shady finacial records, I want my porn. Or is it the other way around?
Ooops! In my other post I forgot about my porn!
I keep multiple copies of that on 5.25, 3.5, CD, DVD and punchcards hidden throughout Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. My home copies are on 2 identical RAID 5 systems backed up to compressed Exabyte tape librarys (one in my apartment, one connected wirelessly to my garage on the same property but 3 buildings away). The apartments have a sprinkler system, so the RAID and Exabyte cabinets are tented with plastic. Working on an archive for my vehicle that backs up through an 802.11a connection whenever I park in the garage.
It was just my defense contracting work I was talking about here
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
What about all the people who used the "Nimda Distributed Backup Plan"? Infect all your machines with Nimda and let it send your files out to dozens of people around the world on a regular basis.
I was going to say that my karma is excellent so this wouldn't happen, but I see my original comment has been modded down already, so pardon me for a moment while I go hide my latest backups under the garden shed...
I wish there was "no sig" checkbox on submission
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best
1) Create false identity
2) Buy plot of land in extremely rural area close to Canadian border. Use false identity, pay cash.
3) Build small, subterranean concrete bunker (10' x 10'). Install water-tight safe in bunker. Camouflage bunker, make it tamper-evident.
4) Visit with data periodically.
You now have a safe place to store things. Safe from fire, flood, and most importantly from the government. Since you bought the land with false identification, they can't shake you down for what you have stored there, unless they know about it. It's close to the border, so you should be able to get the contents fairly easily from the other side of the border -- or get the data as you go OVER the border.
OK, so its not convenient and illegal, but hasn't true safety and privacy always been that way?
I periodically broadcast all my data to Vega. That way, if I ever have a catastrophic destruction of all the data, I only need to send a faster than light ship towards Vega far enough to recieve the last broadcast. If someone ever gets a sleeping virus into the system... I just send the ship a little futher and get an older backup.
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Krispy Cream is people
One fellow, who was paranoid about the permanence of magnetic media, even kept a copy of his raw data on punch cards (cartons of them).
I put mine on Kazaa as [tmd]8mile.(ftf).ts.(1of2)_COMPLETE!!1!
Who said P2P doesn't have substantial non-infringing uses?
Yeah, that's what I do to. I have found if I jsut cp everything I need to /dev/null the data transfer is SUPER fast. I haven't needed to recover anything yet, but the speed at which I can back up my system is so fast that I can afford to do full backups several times a day. It must go to a spot on my hard drive platter that is near the spindle and can spin really fast - but I'm not a kernel hacker so I'm not really sure.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
1) when placing your media in the fireproof safe pack so that it'd survive a good fall.
2) put the fireproof safe in a blasting shell of sorts surrounded by some explosives with a high ignition temp...
3) you're done! when the fire engulfs the shell your safe is in, the safe itself will be shot outside... your media/backups will be safe & unmelted!
Data protection measures should be comensurate with the risk.
Is it 100Gb of a.b.p.e or will your livelyhood be destroyed?
If your house burns down, making sure you still have copies of your "disgusted from Tunbridge Wells" complaints to Channel 5 will be the least of your worries.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
My carefully laid out program for backing up my data consists of these two steps:
1. If I have no space left on any harddisk, burn some of it to a CD.
2. Ehhh... ok, not two steps...