<div dir="ltr">Takes too long to push ~40TB to a new place, the good news is I already centralized everything in my SAN/NAS and was pushing it up from there, so I just converted to CPP, even after the year of discounts, it will still be cheaper than my old family plan.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>And for stuff that doesn't change (old financial records, etc) use MDisk</div><div><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933478/storage/m-disc-optical-media-reviewed-your-data-good-for-a-thousand-years.html" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/<wbr>article/2933478/storage/m-<wbr>disc-optical-media-reviewed-<wbr>your-data-good-for-a-thousand-<wbr>years.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and keep a spare, known-good-and-reboxed CD drive. Park disk copies in a locked box and bank safe deposit box. Use encryption on the files and print to acid free paper the key/password/barcodes and store _those_ in a sealed envelope at a trusted location noted in your will. Use split keys and store the second half with a trusted person NOT noted in your will but getting stuff (like your computer gear).</div><div><br></div><div>Use your OWN gear to back up YOUR data. Verify it can be restored in a time frame that is acceptable. Do this verification at least biannually so you remember the process. Any data you've never tested a restore on is not important enough to back up in the first place. This lesson is often learned the hardest way possible and includes the most pain that can be imagined.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Client #1 claimed they would back up their own laptop and for me to not mess it. He was the CFO of a growing 50+ person company. Laptop hard drive died the same day he got the audit notice from the Federal IRS. ALL, and I mean __ALL__WITH__NO__EXCEPTIONS__, of the corp finances were on that drive.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Client #2 had their local admin - out of state home office - I was local office admin and their backups WORKED - set up backups. Their CFO fubbarred the books so badly she - grossly incompetently - just deleted the entire accounting folder and went to restore from the prior day and start over on her process. Restore didn't work. Backup tool claimed the backups were good but the admin never tested the restore process. All financial records for a 200+ person federal contracting company were lost. The feds called a project audit later that day. For unknown reasons the idiot admin didn't get fired.)</div><div><br></div><div>Unless you have stupid money to spend on lawyers, a tape drive is cheaper.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:23 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Not perfect, but costs are well understood and the data never leaves
your control ...
* Get a couple HDDs and a USB3 dock for backups.
* Swap just the disks between home and work every week.
* Use the one at home for daily, versioned, automatic, backups to the
encrypted file system on it.
* The one at work is your off-site backup from last week. Encrypted.
8TB disks have been $160 this month, but 500G disks are probably more
than enough for most "critical data" in a home. 500G was enough for
over 10 systems here. Just deal with large media stuff separately.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
going 70 mph on an interstate." I know it is much greater than my
Comcast links.
On 08/24/2017 01:34 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
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BackBlaze is not being subtle about their willingness to take on all the
people flocking away from CrashPlan, but that doesn't help us. I think
BackBlaze doesn't have a native client for Linux, though. That being
said, some people were suggesting standing up a Windows VM/Host to
collect backups from all your devices and then push up to BackBlaze.
That comes with some extra overhead on your own part for restores, but
it does have the added benefit of backing up your whole network while
only having to pay backblaze for a single machine.
<a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crashplan-alternative-backup-solution/" target="_blank">https://www.backblaze.com/<wbr>blog/crashplan-alternative-<wbr>backup-solution/</a>
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