Your backups are up-to-date, right? What setup do you use for them?

Your backups are up-to-date, right? What setup do you use for them?

crashplan

Copypaste once a month

The documents that matter are kept in an external drive, dropbox and on the computer itself. Everything else is expendable.

Stop hoarding.

i have nothing worth backing up

I have my main 1TB drive that holds the OS and shit, and games. My 4TB green holds Torrents, Software, ISOs, and etc.

I have a 1TB external that I copy over shit from the 4TB with copy and paste.

Are there better ways? I want a drive that holds most of my most important shit just in case.

>no error checking
>file permissions get funked

Might as well not make the backup

It's just images.

Crashplan with a custom cert.

What's a backup?

All I have is literally a plain text document with all my logins and passwords.

Crashplan to my seedbox hosted off site once a day and the occasional backup to mega.

...

Crashplan off-site, one weekly backup on an external hard disk, and one monthly backup on a server.

I'm surprised so many people use Crashplan here.

Syncback Free.

Yes but it takes 24 hours to back up and encrypt the backup.

I have a 500 GB and 1 TB external HDD with isos, movies, series and some documents, also the most important documents are in google drive and dropbox

i don't have much to save. maybe some ideas for songs i had a few years ago but i don't really care. songs will come to me when i need them

I can fit 10 drives in this

Time Machine for my OS X drive, to a 1TB partition on a WD Red drive in an external caddy. Occasional manual rsyncs for my media drive(s), to a 2TB ExFAT partition on the same Red drive.

No backup for my Windows boot drive, because I don't give a shit about it. It's just for vidya.

rsnapshot(rsync-based tool) + cronjob

rsync

Time Machine backup every hour with the latest backup synced nightly to one of four rotating remote backup servers

same here.

i have a copy of my music collection at an external drive and things i need the most at google drive

Not the guy you're responding to, but I am worried about this.
Here is my setup: two 1TB external hard drives of different brands, one of which will be kept offsite.
Here is my problem: the data i want to back up is spread across an SSD and HDD. The HDD alone is greater than 1TB, so I can't just clone the drive. I don't have more than 1TB of data I want to back up. Is there a program that can pick and choose what data I want to back up and schedule regular syncs? This is on xubuntu.

WD 1Tb External HDD to store all my movies on and an (old) Emtec Move Cube as backup
Planning on getting something better to store the backups on next week

>plain text document with all my logins and passwords
Kill yourself

Write a small rsync script. There are options for specifying exclusions and crossing filesystems

That is literally impossible to do on Linux.

I keep a synced documents folder on a flashdrive, my PC and my laptop.
I use rsync and some bash scripts.

Daily incremental back-ups.
Monthly a full backup.
Backup is made on a raid 1 nas.

my stuff is on my pc, synced with my NAS, and my NAS is daily incrementally backuped to my other NAS

I need one of these. I used to just use a thumb drive but I fubared the cheap fucker with LUKS

kill yourself

I have two old laptop HDDs which I swap in a caddy on alternating months. Seasonally (or bi-seasonally if I don't have lots of new things to backup) I'll write the most important files to a DVD and stow it in my safety deposit box.

More than keeping them current, I'm most careful about making sure they're functional. I'll check random files throughout the backups to make sure they open.

Thanks. I'm having a look at the rsync page and this looks like something I can do.

Create Synchronicity - Backup & Sync

pretty lightweight program.

rsync once a month.

Have several encrypted backups of furry porn.

get fucked. It's easy to do in bash with a cron job.

>cron
>not a systemd service file

>Genesis 6:19
God wills it. I am prepared for the flood.

Terry?

Time Machine to a VM on my server and then all those VMs get backed up to a FreeNAS VM with a DAS attached to it. Good enough for me.

use synctoy

I've read a lot of bad stuff about network Time Machine. Do you trust it? I ended up going with a local (USB3) disk for TM plus rsync to a network drive.

ntfsclone for windows
fsarchiver for /boot and /
rsync for /home

rotating system of multiple external drives. Feelsgoodman.

What does this do

>What does this do

Tickles your balls while you jerk off.

weekly backup of files and system image to a network drive using windows backup program. usually run a time machine backup at least once a week on my macs

my linux boxes dont really do anything important enough to warrant caring

Simple script for making LVM snapshots and backing them up to USB HDD with Borg backup.

I use Intronis.

File changes are checked multiple times per hour and then backed up off-site.

Weekly backup of important files to external HD + backup of OS

Other documents in Google Drive, I don't really back that up because I trust Google not to fuck up THAT bad

Why is manually copypasting not a good idea? I inspect all the files I backup to see if they work.

Why though? It's safer than storing them online dumbass.

Freefilesync , with a no ads thanks to a 0.01 € donation. Works wonders.

Less than a month old on EHDD. Thanks for reminder though.

tfw just accidentally found this thread while waiting for one of my backups to complete.

it's a meme, mate. Contrarians will deny anything that is the norm. Ignore them

Time Machine and iCloud

Sue me

Well for one it means you haven't automated it, and two it doesn't handle moved/deleted files (you'll end up with duplicates).

>I inspect all the files I backup to see if they work.
Really? Every single one? Every time? I find that hard to believe. Also, there's plenty of opportunity for subtle corruption that you may not notice on a quick glance.

If you're just copying your collection of movies across, maybe you don't care. If you're talking about work docs, it's just not good enough.

Dude you are literally retarded. All you need to do is to compress everything into one huge file and then use a checksum to verify integrity.

Github.
All my files are free as in freedom

Month outdated, my server went down and I've been too lazy to fix it

i dont have any backups. would be expensive to have 2 or more drives with same content

Windows Backup and Restore

just werks

>storing backups in the cloud

>onsite
>backup
Choose one.

The threat model that is addressed by an onsite external HDD backup is failure of the internal SSD/HDD(s) of the system in question.

Encrypt the file at least

I'll encrypt my dick in your ass

>rsnapshot or rsync
>cron job

I'm a Linux pleb and still managed fine.

I don't think I have EVER restore my windows installation from a windows backup. Data alone I'm sure just werks but system restoring has always thrown some kind of error at me to the point where I would just clean install.

Nope,my hdd just died
lost about 1-2months worth of shit

I use Time Machine to back to a 1TB external. I know it's a shitty setup but I've trying to work out how to use rsync. I really need more drives.

>completely abandoned physical backups
>it'll take 6 years of monthly payments to equal the cost of one physical drive
>house could be ransacked or burnt down and my data would still be safe

feels good

Time Machine is not shitty but if/when you do have the space I would consider supplementing it with a second method.

WD Elements 1TB for my music/TV/movies.

Need to get a new drive ASAP since I'm basically out of space now, probably gonna get a WD Blue 2TB since they're cheap.

What's a backup solution for very large amounts of data? Like 5TB+. Is the only option mirrored RAID

>Blue
Consider Red? £13 more for another year of warranty and better durability. Budget HDDs are a false economy.

Is it really worth the price difference??

chmod * 777

I made three copies and they all have three layers of encryption with AES, Serpent, and Twofish; just that in different orders. Every layer of encryption uses one of the other two files (in the same layer) as passkey, so the only way to decrypt them is if you have the 3 files from the top layer and start using them to decrypt each other in the right order.

The file at the end of the series is encrypted with a password that only I know, and I keep the files in different storage units around the house. It doesn't get any safer than this.

500gb drive in the ultrabay
500gb on a external drive
1tb drive in an old pc

I dont have any cloud backups because if the house is destroyed, chances are I'm dead already.

Seems kinda overkill

Where are you finding these? Amazon is so much cheaper.

aud

That seems expensive user. Is there nowhere else to get them from?

Anyway I'd say Blue is okay for your *main* media storage, but your backup should be Red or Black.

The blue is 5400 RPM and nothing but 5400 RPM. High performance - in 2005. If you're gonna use it for backups and nothing but backups, 5400 will be fine, if slow. But you're gonna regret it if you try using it as your main drive.

"Elements" is a clone of "STORAGE", right?

I ask because I recently talked to someone who stored their media on an external drive /instead/ of their main one, and thought that meant it was backed up.

Drive use cases as I understand them:

SSD: Boot, application, working data
WD Black: Games, other data that needs to be fast but is too large for SSD
WD Blue: Media
WD Red: Backup, NAS

HGST: High reliability for backup, but also high price

WD Green: Worst of all worlds (except power consumption); do not use
Seagate anything (including rebrands such as many Samsung products): Do not use
Toshiba: [Can't comment]

Anyone got a rec for a good filesync program on Windows?

I use Cobian Backup right now, it works but hasnt been updated since 2011. I just want to schedule backups from one drive to another internal drive. Bonus points if it does network drives.

I know this is currently a meme for personal use since they are so expensive, but what about the multi terabyte samsung SSDs that were recently announced, and potentially buying something like that in a few years with the price drops? Would they be any good for backup?

>tfw you'll never own a tape drive

Is copying the device (/dev/sd**) a bad way of backing up?

>Borg backup.
Seconded

borgbackup is perfect because it operates on a block level and can handle incremental changes to VM images

I collect all borgbackups on my desktop HDD, and regularly rsync that to an external USB HDD that is hidden outside of my apartment

>they all have three layers of encryption with AES, Serpent, and Twofish
Then they aren't plaintext

I don't understand why they cost $2,000+

I'm just going to get a used one for like $20 or $30

I just deleted my WD external backup thinking it was my a partition on my internal one after a fresh windows install. Testdisk is doing a deep scan looking for a backup bootlist. I hope it works.