backups
Tue Jan 1 02:25:56 EST 2013
I've ordered a 4TB external (USB 3.0) disk. I'm planning to connect it to the MythTV server and install BackupPC (a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk; highly configurable and easy to install and maintain). Backups of our laptops are not routine enough. I need to make them happen automatically. Turning the MythTV server into a backup server with our laptops as clients sounds like a solution. With a backup application that recognizes duplicate/identical files, 4TB should let us keep years of backup of 2 computers that total 750GB.
Wednesday 16:30
The disk drive has shipped, and should arrive Friday. Pretty good for free shipping.
Friday 01:20
The disk drive is still scheduled to arrive sometime Friday. UPS tracking shows it sat in Laurel, MD for 15 hours. Odds are there's someone working in my building who commutes from Laurel, and could have brought it along. (It was scanned in at 05:17 Thursday.) Hmmm, that sounds like a way delivery companies could save money and cut a day off transit. (Things have to be on the small side though if I'm going to receive them at the office on days I've biked.)
Friday 23:01
The disk drive was on the front porch when I got home tonight. I got an email delivery notice at work from UPS at 12:52.
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I've ordered a 4TB external (USB 3.0) disk. I'm planning to connect it to the MythTV server and install BackupPC (a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk; highly configurable and easy to install and maintain). Backups of our laptops are not routine enough. I need to make them happen automatically. Turning the MythTV server into a backup server with our laptops as clients sounds like a solution. With a backup application that recognizes duplicate/identical files, 4TB should let us keep years of backup of 2 computers that total 750GB.
Wednesday 16:30
The disk drive has shipped, and should arrive Friday. Pretty good for free shipping.
Friday 01:20
The disk drive is still scheduled to arrive sometime Friday. UPS tracking shows it sat in Laurel, MD for 15 hours. Odds are there's someone working in my building who commutes from Laurel, and could have brought it along. (It was scanned in at 05:17 Thursday.) Hmmm, that sounds like a way delivery companies could save money and cut a day off transit. (Things have to be on the small side though if I'm going to receive them at the office on days I've biked.)
Friday 23:01
The disk drive was on the front porch when I got home tonight. I got an email delivery notice at work from UPS at 12:52.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/576178.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]