Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? 304
MrSeb writes "Today is World Backup Day! The premise is that you back up your computers on March 31, so that you're not an April Fool if your hard drive crashes tomorrow. How do Slashdot users back up? RAID? Multiple RAIDs? If you're in LA, on a fault line, do you keep a redundant copy of your data in another geographic region?"
RAID is not a backup solution (Score:5, Insightful)
Simple. Redundancy backup.
If it's not off site it's not a backup ! (Score:3, Insightful)
It's a raid.
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Backups are for the weak ! (Score:5, Insightful)
When you boot up in the morning and it takes a little longer than usual, the heart beats a little faster and you think "OMG is the machine going to fail? My data will be gone". Or perhaps there's an electrical storm to liven your day up - "If that thunder gets any closer I might have to shut down the PC, but if lightning hits then everything's toast !".
These scenarios, and many others, all get the blood pumping in fear. If the computer
Try it - it's fun
Automated backup of NAS (Score:4, Insightful)
More important (Score:3, Insightful)
World backup day? How about world test your restore day? All the backups in the world don't mean anything unless you test your restores and know your data.
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