Back Up

[Donald Allen]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Jean-David Beyer
<jeandavid8 at verizon.net> wrote:
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> hermit wrote:
> | Derek Atkins wrote:
> |> Why?
> |> Word doesn't have a Backup button.
> |> Excel doesn't have a Backup button.
> |>
> | The why is 'customer driven' and therefore using M$ products is not the
> | best choice of comparison here. :)  Removable media is becoming much
> | better and easier to use.  How about we call in "quick alternate
> | store"?  If "save as" stored the last settings life would be easier.
> | Maybe this is one area where software is not keeping up with the
> | technology?  Even my phone stores two gig of data now and I always have
> | that with me.
>
> I do not understand all this ad hoc backup that people seem to want to do.
> I believe in more consistency. I back up _everything_ in my machine every
> day (onto tape, but use whatever medium suits you).
>
> I have cron do it in the middle of the night when I am less likely to use my
> machine. That way I have daily tapes for 6 days a week, weekly tapes for a
> month, and 12 monthly tapes that I keep for a year (those are in the safe
> deposit box at my bank in case my house burns down or something).
>
> That way I do not have to remember to back up this, that, and the other
> thing because I know it is backed up.

I agree with you and with Derek. Backup is a system-wide function.
It's crazy to clutter every application's user-interface with a
"please back me up" capability.

My personal approach is to use big, cheap SATA disks in USB shoeboxes.
I'm using the plural because I use the disks for both backup and
archiving, as well as a copy of everything off-site, so there are
three of them. For my home directory, I simply rsync to the current
'primary' backup disk, which usually takes seconds and since it's
fast, I do it often, especially after I've invested a lot of time in,
say, categorizing credit card transactions or reconciling accounts in
Gnucash.

/Don


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