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?"
How Do You Back Up? (Score:5, Funny)
With a loud beeping noise.
Re:RAID is not a backup solution (Score:4, Funny)
Who needs RAID? My hard drive is so large that I just backup my files in a different directory :P
(Note: this is a joke, but sadly, many actually follow this "strategy")
cron job (Score:5, Funny)
My weekly backups: something like:
0 0 * * 0 /home/me/backup.sh
#### backup.sh ##### /dev/null
cp -r home/me/*
I haven't missed a backup yet :-)
Re:I use... (Score:5, Funny)
Amateur. I take polaroids of my platters and store them in a safe deposit box.
Re:shell script (Score:5, Funny)
I just noticed I needed quotes around the bpaths variable assignment. Furthermore, my backup script has been broken since January!
Thanks, Slashdot, for making my look at my script!
Re:cron job (Score:4, Funny)
My weekly backups: something like: /home/me/backup.sh
0 0 * * 0
#### backup.sh ##### /dev/null
cp -r home/me/*
You should make a restore.sh script to match this. Then test it...
Re:Automated backup of NAS (Score:5, Funny)
Hello Kitty [google.com] USB flash drives.
Drop a bunch in the parking lot.
Use Google to get the data in a couple of days. Latency is a bit low, but hell, it's a backup.
Re:I use... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. You should see my butterfly collection...