On 14/01/2021 12:22, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2021 11:43:24 GMT
> TimS  wrote:
>
>> Disk space may be cheap, but then you have to manage it. And remember -
>> if you make backup/restore complicated then noddy users won't do it.
>
>  You can make it as easy as you like and they still won't. A long
> time ago I set up a system for a customer with an overnight backup schedule
> and prepared a box of QIC tapes labelled Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Fri, Fri
> and left instructions to change the tape daily and keep all but one of the
> Fri tapes offsite cycling them round each week. Many months later the hrd
> disc failed during the nightly backup so after replacing the drive and
> finding the backup corrupt I asked for the previous night's tape - it
> emerged that they had *never* changed the tape.
>
>  We all learned something that day.
>
Exactly. My rsyncs are done by 3 am cronjob. I have two VPSes out there
in internet land, and one big server in house. They all get copied onto
a secondary disk. If  any disk goes, I have full backups, except if the
secondary disk goes I have a BIG cronjob the night and day after a new
one goes in :-)

I have never really successfully restored from a tape. And the drive
costs more than 4TB of disk.

So far i've had one backup drive die on me - well nearly. started giving
errors.

And accidentally deleted a file and restored it from last nights backup
half a dozen times, and rebuilt *this* desktop completely using the
backup as a source of remembering what config changes I had made to a
raw install.

Works for me. YMMV


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