Something i haven’t seen posted here yet, but worth say over and over again.
Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong… but with the 3-2-1 strategy in place, your data always survives.
I think it’s as equally important to remember; A backup is not back up… Until you’ve restored from it.
Test your backups, folks.
any opinions about leaving a drive or two at work? I’m wondering if there’s any risk to this, but it seems a convenient way to have off-site storage if I leave a couple drives in my drawer at work. encrypted of course…
My only concern would be if you end up leaving the company it might look suspicious when you’re packing up some hard drives along with the rest of the stuff from your desk. Particularly if you’re laid off, fired, etc.
IMHO There are complications with doing this at work. If you’re in the tech industry, (or anything with computers at work), you could be accused of stealing data or doing something malicious or just have it stolen by someone at the office, (which goes into if you should encrypt your data… another can of worms to open).
The risk assessment is for you to decide.
I mean, it also depends on the people you work with. You could just ask whoever is in charge if you can. Worst they will say is no. It is amazing how far you can get with a friendly smile and a box of doughnuts.
If your coworkers like you enough, you don’t really need to worry about theft. I had left a drive and somebody moved it not knowing its purpose. My coworkers ripped the place apart to help me find it.
What’s the best way to make an offsite backup for 42tb at this point with 20mbps of bandwidth? It would take over 6 months to upload while maxing out my connection.
Maybe I could sneakernet an initial backup then incrementally replicate?
Outside my depth but I’ll give it a stab. Identify what data is important, (is the full 42Tb needed?). Can the data be split into easier to handle chunks?
If it is, then I personally do an initial sneakernet to get the fist set of data over. Then mirror different on a regular basis.
Yes and of course as per usual here is the needed comment saying RAID is not a backup.
I really need to figure out a good offsite backup solution. I have tons of local backups. And I have the data in google drive, but I really want to store a physical backup somewhere.
I think I’d should pickup a cheap portable hard drive that I can leave at my mother-in-laws house.
Just have my personal and work stuff backed up there and I can update it each time I go to visit.
Portable HD 2Tb is under $100. Well worth the investment. I committed on doing a good routine beginning of the year, (after putting it off for many years). Starting now is better than not at all.
Yeah, you are 100% right.
I won’t be heading to my mother in laws house for a while. But next time I’m there, I’ll get one and set it up.