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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Roland Tarver wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Gordon Henderson >> <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> So what might be the best way? >>> >>> I reckon that with the co-operation of a friend (or 2) then you could get >>> a >>> good system in-place. Everyone has 2 removable drives of sufficient >>> capacity, and one is at home and one with a trusted friend (but you'll >>> want >>> to use whole-disk encryption, anyway). >> >> I assume this removable drive would installed in your friends linux pc? > > No. You're just giving it to them for safe keeping - acting as a cheap > off-site storage location. Ah right! Sorry. With you now. :-) > >>> So on a daily basis, rsync your live >>> data to the backup, using various tricks to maintain several days worth >>> of >>> storage (cp -al), then once a week, you swap your "live" disk with that >>> held >>> by the friend and carry on. >> >> If the drives are rsynced daily - why do you swap them over? Just to >> even the wear and tear? Presumably the drive at home will be doing >> more work than the one at your friends. > > The remote one is turned off. You could swap them daily but that might be a > PITA - what I'm suggesting here is a scheme that gives you a weeks worth of > daily snapshots online & local to you - handy for accidental file deletion, > and data older then a week is kept off-site - handy for when your house gets > demolished. So at most you'll lose a weeks worth of data. Perhaps you could make it a little easier (and less robust?) by just keeping a the disk in your car. Daily backups might be less of a PITA in that case however. A project perhaps... "encrypted wireless car data backup". I could make millions... lol ;-) A convenient and pseudo off-site data backup? >> There is almost a need for a product like this. Maybe. You buy it >> once, plumb it in at a friends and then there are no on-going backup >> costs, except power - which if it is just a drive plugged into your >> mates pc, will hopefully not be too much. Arrangements could be made >> so that it is not on all the time too (esp. if it was an external >> drive). hmmm... > > No - Not online. noted. lol. roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq