PSA: It's January. Have you done your off-site backup yet?
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OWC?
These days my offsite site is just a "fireproof" box the garage. That is still better than the vast majority of corporate IT practice these days.
I'd like to think that's a damn huge Ouija board!
The spirits have granted your wish?
I don't believe in offsite backups. Losing data builds character.
true dat. just like forgetting a gpg passphrase
shhh, I'm working hard on some Friday night braindamage and my new passphrase isn't going too slide out of the grey matter without help.
k3n.
Out of curiosity, what kind of external enclosures do you use? I have myself implemented the Zawinski procedure with a pair of cheap "Advance Quick Disk USB 2.0 BX-306BK" enclosures (didn't have USB3 on my desktop at the time). Didn't have to actually use it fortunately, but it's reassuring to know that my data is safely backed up without relying on some fancy cloud.
I don't even remember. It's SATA2 on the inside and USB on the outside. Such things are irrelevant these days.
That looks like a "Macally 3.5-Inch Aluminum SATA to eSATA and USB 3.0 Storage Enclosure". I have several of them, including one that I use for monthly off-site backup of the NAS in my house. (And no, I haven't done this month's backup yet.)
Yeah probably.
What I could really use is cheap external SATA2 drive enclosures with physical non-momentary non-EnergyStar™ power switches so that they actually fucking mount after a power failure without you having to press the candy-like button. (And no, jimmying the button to be always depressed, or just shorting it out, does not work.)
I got tired of external enclosures and similar issues and finally went with some older variant of these docks with a physical power button. I just save the static bags and store/trasport them that way, plug or unplug as needed.
What, you don't just keep it in the clown?
apropos of nothing, i pronounce "jwz" as "jizz". also, any new signs at the residence?
Maybe jwz should offer to make DNA Lounge an offline hard drive storage location, for a small fee. Everybody wins.
Heh. "DNA Lounge Data Storage Services. Now accessible via infrared uplink to some apartment on a hill with a DSL line."
I set up my own multi-tiered backup strategy ages ago. I have my tier-1 or "hot" backups to a large synology via various means. My huge (7.8T) itunes library is just via rsync, my linux server and macbook are backed up to it via rsnapshot to an iscsi lun.
My tier-2 is my "off-site" where I have 2 sets of external disks I swap out ~monthly with one set locked in my desk at work. The linux/mac backups are a simple disk that I plug into a pretty standard USB/SATA adapter. The itunes backups are 2 identical Lacie 2Bigs with 2x6T striped disks in them that just use Time Machine.
Haven't completely lost anything yet since using this setup. (fingers crossed)
I'm basically backing up against failed drives and/or something like theft/fire.. not so much my own mistakes. I could still lose data the latter way, if I didn't catch it before enough backups ran again.
Wow. Bravo! Encore!!
Ya sure gotta lotta carnival-barker-XXXXXDHTML+ code o'thar, coming from a far-reaching, VitSee-ing YOUTHwitheTRUTH in ToePeeka, KS. Sheeeet, girl. Done gonna gitcha out heer on d'farm....
However, this is only our finite existence, dear, our lifelong demise. Doesnt matter if you're a democrat or the opposite, babe, 1-outta-1 bites-the-dust. And dats da fak, Jak.
Meet me Upstairs
for the a Big-ol-beer...
and we'll RITE thousands upon thousands
of lines of CODEfy.
trustNjesus, Ms. Blueprintzz,
and wiseabove to Seventh-Heaven.
God bless your indelible soul.
cya Upstairs someday...
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As I re-read PSA: backups all I could think was "ah, the good old days when you could simply replace a MacBook's HD…"
nope... clickity clicking on my old VM-machine folder, /// because my NEWlyinstalledportable-VBOX says adding it back in was a duplicate-error /// and poof deleted my vdi ... ...