Comments on: Backup http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/backup.html Photography, opinions and other random ramblings by Stephen Darlington Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:06:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Michael Graham http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/backup.html#comment-27123 Michael Graham Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:08:59 +0000 http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/backup.html#comment-27123 Stephen, I appreciate your informative post on backup solutions. In reference to your comments about online backup services: it is true that the biggest hiccup exists in the initial backup. However, some online backup services (including my company, SafeEvault) provide what we call "data seeding." We ship a physical drive to the site for that first backup to minimize the bandwidth crunch. This functionality is built into the client software, making the process totally painless. And if/when a full restore is necessary, we can again ship the drive to the site (although restore speeds are much faster than upload speeds, so in many cases this is not necessary). Additionally, the same software used to back up to our server can also be used to back up to a local drive, consolidating your backup plan into one interface. Michael Graham Stephen,
I appreciate your informative post on backup solutions.
In reference to your comments about online backup services: it is true that the biggest hiccup exists in the initial backup. However, some online backup services (including my company, SafeEvault) provide what we call “data seeding.”
We ship a physical drive to the site for that first backup to minimize the bandwidth crunch. This functionality is built into the client software, making the process totally painless. And if/when a full restore is necessary, we can again ship the drive to the site (although restore speeds are much faster than upload speeds, so in many cases this is not necessary).
Additionally, the same software used to back up to our server can also be used to back up to a local drive, consolidating your backup plan into one interface.

Michael Graham

]]> By: Mark Fazakerley http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/backup.html#comment-1840 Mark Fazakerley Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:35:47 +0000 http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/backup.html#comment-1840 Hi Stephen, Hope you're well. Having been through a relitively similar experience as you (mozy - online service, 60 gig of random pix, avi, wmv files), I use - rsync to my own linux box from windows. Some pain initially, but now it's automated weekly. - Acronis disk image which sounds v. similar to CCC and does a great job to a USB disk, incrementally. Had a hard disk die on my wife's computer 6 months ago: Vital medical / financial data : £650 to retreive it: ouch! Mark Hi Stephen,

Hope you’re well. Having been through a relitively similar experience as you (mozy - online service, 60 gig of random pix, avi, wmv files), I use

- rsync to my own linux box from windows. Some pain initially, but now it’s
automated weekly.
- Acronis disk image which sounds v. similar to CCC and does a great job
to a USB disk, incrementally.

Had a hard disk die on my wife’s computer 6 months ago: Vital medical / financial data : £650 to retreive it: ouch!

Mark

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