[CoLoCo] Best backup solution

[Michael Robbert]

RAID isn't really meant for backup anyways. RAID 1 is good for high
availability and just happens to protect against some HW failures, but
if you get data corruption it will be on both drives and there is no
backup to turn to. Not to mention there is no way for off site
storage. i.e. What happens if your house burns down?
Unfortunately I don't have any concrete suggestions for you since I
don't do a good job with personal backups either. I use AMANDA at
work, but that is really overkill for home use and is much more work
to setup than any RAID. I would suggest looking into Amazon's S3
service. It is a remote disk system that is dirt cheap. There are some
tools built to access it for backup purposes. Jungle Disk is one that
I've heard is very recommended. It is a piece of software that will
backup your data to S3 with encryption so that you're the only one
with the key.

Good luck,
Mike

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:54 AM, TC <telecon at infosyndicate.net> wrote:
> > Sorry we couldn't do better with your raid.
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> http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-linux-download/timevault-time-machine-for-linux-275399.php
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> > Jim Hutchinson wrote:
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> Well, we got it working. Something just got goofed up and it wouldn't boot.
> I'm copying all the data right now to do a new install. I don't think I'm
> going to mess with RAID again right now. Maybe someday when I learn more.
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> Timevault looks like a cool idea but it doesn't look like it's anywhere
> close to finished.
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> Thanks for the info.
> -jim
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