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Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up?

Posted by timothy on from the hope-and-luck dept.

MrSeb writes "Today is World Backup Day! The premise is that you back up your computers on March 31, so that you're not an April Fool if your hard drive crashes tomorrow. How do Slashdot users back up? RAID? Multiple RAIDs? If you're in LA, on a fault line, do you keep a redundant copy of your data in another geographic region?"

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  1. How Do You Back Up? by mooingyak · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a loud beeping noise.

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    William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
  2. Re:RAID is not a backup solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who needs RAID? My hard drive is so large that I just backup my files in a different directory :P

    (Note: this is a joke, but sadly, many actually follow this "strategy")

  3. cron job by ILongForDarkness · · Score: 4, Funny

    My weekly backups: something like:

    0 0 * * 0 /home/me/backup.sh

    #### backup.sh #####
    cp -r home/me/* /dev/null

    I haven't missed a backup yet :-)

    1. Re:cron job by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 3, Funny

      My weekly backups: something like:
      0 0 * * 0 /home/me/backup.sh

      #### backup.sh #####
      cp -r home/me/* /dev/null

      You should make a restore.sh script to match this. Then test it...

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      Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
  4. Re:I use... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amateur. I take polaroids of my platters and store them in a safe deposit box.

  5. Re:shell script by Ken_g6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just noticed I needed quotes around the bpaths variable assignment. Furthermore, my backup script has been broken since January!

    Thanks, Slashdot, for making my look at my script!

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  6. Re:Automated backup of NAS by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello Kitty USB flash drives.

    Drop a bunch in the parking lot.

    Use Google to get the data in a couple of days. Latency is a bit low, but hell, it's a backup.

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
  7. Re:I use... by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nothing. You should see my butterfly collection...