> I am thinking of getting a home desktop system and I could use a rsync > technique for keeping copies of my laptop and desktop in sync ... Yet, it Also look at Unison. It does a more advanced comparison than rsync, and I use it to sync two machines. It does seem a little slower than rsync, however. Jeremy On Wednesday 03 October 2007 9:21:28 am Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Thanks for all the tips. The freezer trick didn't do it for me ... but, I > am going to perhaps try the controller trick and then give it up for now. > > But, the inevitable followup to a hd crash. I had backed up all important > data on dvds 3 months back, some of my code is on svn and cvs repositories, > and email is on an email server ... but, i nevertheless lost some work > related docs and some code ... say about 20-40 hours of work in recreating > those. > > I also had dumbly(?) used my laptop as a cron-scheduled rsync-based backup > system for data on a web service (about 15 gb). Now, I need to think of > other setups. I am thinking of using amazon s3 for backing up my server > data ... Any thoughts on amazon s3 and/or alternatives folks here might > have experience with? Data of the order of 10s of gigabytes and growing > over time at the rate of maybe 1 gb a month. > > I am thinking of getting a home desktop system and I could use a rsync > technique for keeping copies of my laptop and desktop in sync ... Yet, it > seems you would have to burn DVDs every once in a while because there is > always the risk of one or the other 'backup' systems packing up. Or is it > better to simply get a back up hard drive solely for the purpose of backup > and not use it for anything else, in stead of (or in addition to) a > desktop? > > Do people have thoughts on backup strategies -- I suppose this depends on > risk appetites as well as how critical the data is -- but what is a typical > (not overkill) backup strategy that people adopt when you have a > combination of email, code, design docs, personal photos + music, and web > service data? > > Feel free to direct me to an appropriate web site or other forums. > > Thanks, > Subbu.