Advanced backup solutions
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:03 am
Everybody knows how important backups are. Most people do have some way of backing up their files. I've got a pretty decent system in place:
- daily backups to an archive backup on an external HD (Timemachine), which allows me to go back in time about 9 months and find any file I had in that time
- 2 clones of my whole HD to external HDs. Updated about weekly.
However, I'd like to go further then this. First problem is that all backups are in my own house most of the time. If everything burns down, I loose everything. Second: having an archive or clone of files is nice, but in case a file becomes corrupted somehow, making 100 backups of that same corrupt file is useless.
So, do some of you have other solutions you use? I was thinking about having a form of online backup for the first problem. For the second problem I should have some system in place which checks the integrity of files
- daily backups to an archive backup on an external HD (Timemachine), which allows me to go back in time about 9 months and find any file I had in that time
- 2 clones of my whole HD to external HDs. Updated about weekly.
However, I'd like to go further then this. First problem is that all backups are in my own house most of the time. If everything burns down, I loose everything. Second: having an archive or clone of files is nice, but in case a file becomes corrupted somehow, making 100 backups of that same corrupt file is useless.
So, do some of you have other solutions you use? I was thinking about having a form of online backup for the first problem. For the second problem I should have some system in place which checks the integrity of files