{"id":681,"date":"2006-04-27T05:24:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/mike-hillyer%e2%80%99s-laptop-melting-and-backup-fun-at-uc\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T05:24:52","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T19:24:52","slug":"mike-hillyer%e2%80%99s-laptop-melting-and-backup-fun-at-uc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/mike-hillyer%e2%80%99s-laptop-melting-and-backup-fun-at-uc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hillyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laptop melting and backup fun at UC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Hillyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Personal Web Space \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Alive!!<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike’s laptop went funny, but he had a backup of his presentation.<\/p>\n

So, something about my backup strategy.<\/p>\n

I have a policy that anything that I really care about is backed up. If it’s not backed up, I don’t care about it.<\/p>\n

e.g. while I’d be sad if my mythtv box suddenly had a disk failure, I can always put in a blank disk and I don’t loose too much.<\/p>\n

My email is fetched onto a server at home, and I use offlineimap to keep an up to date (nearly) copy on my laptop. I also, at least weekly, burn the entire thing to DVD (it still fits, when bzip2 compressed).<\/p>\n

Also, for all that other stuff that is pretty important (\/home), I do a xfsdump to external disk.<\/p>\n

I also now (on a paranoid spending trip at Fry’s) have a small portable drive that is roughly twice the size of my \/home partition. The idea is that on the road I can regularly do an xfsdump to this\u00c2\u00a0 – in fact, two complete dumps (and one or two incrementals on it).<\/p>\n

Call me paranoid, but I like my data.<\/p>\n

I also make sure I burn photos to DVD, but that’s more periodic as there’s a lot of them now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Hillyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Personal Web Space \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Alive!! Mike’s laptop went funny, but he had a backup of his presentation. So, something about my backup strategy. 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