It's been a while since I described the way I do backups -- in fact, the only public document I could find on the subject was written in 2006, and ( Read more... )

Following up on mdlbear | Welcome, tumblr refugees: this might otherwise have just been a longish section of next Sunday's "done" post, but the Tumblr apocalypse (tumbling-down?) is happening now and I wanted to get tumblr_backup.py out there. (It's a tumblr backup script, via this tumblr post by greywash, who notes that the ( Read more... )

Tried to log in on my file server last week and found out that the hard ( Read more... )

So I finally decided to get serious about off-site backups: i.e., stop planning and start doing. This was assisted by the fact that work finally got around to installing a second T1 line yesterday -- my upstream bandwidth at home is barely sufficient to keep up with incremental backups; it would be hopeless for uploading the ( Read more... )

flyback - Google CodeApple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use.
(from this post on slashdotI just upgraded my work laptop to Leopard yesterday, and fired up Time Machine because, well, automatic incremental ( Read more... )

Did backups this morning using the new SATA backup drive and new scripts. Fast as a bat: 10 minutes for 273GB of data.

I still haven't done the rest of the associated reorganization; I just wanted to get a snapshot of the current state.
( geeky details: the next steps )

Set up a massive file transfer to my shiny new backup drive last night and went to bed; I was rather disturbed to come into the office this morning and find an I/O error on the screen, and the OS unable to find the drive. Gleep!

I took the drive out of the USB enclosure, powered down, put it in ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, my disk test is finally on its final write pass. At roughly 3.5 hours per pass, I'm guessing sometime between 2 and 3am. (ETA: 03:56:13, as it turns out) I'm really enjoying having an OS that's stable enough that you can run a ( Read more... )

... part mumble. Just before leaving for six days of Westercon, I very sensibly put my backup drive in another room and made a second set of backups (just of the important stuff: /home, /local/starport, and /mm/record) on yet another ( Read more... )

This post by Mark Pilgrim, along with a (unfortunately friends-locked) post by my nephew asavitzk, got me thinking about backups again. I'm doing OK, but I can do better.
( the current setup: hot and cold running backups )