BACKUPS !!!

Stephen Barncard stephen at barncard.com
Tue Mar 19 17:01:46 EDT 2019


Offsite backup of large media files is just not practical in a working
environment with normal consumer Internet connections and multiple
projects.

I’m talking about final cut pro and ProTools multi track.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:03 Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reminder, Ralph, and glad you indeed had backups.
>
> On which subject... my top tip to friends, family, and even casual
> acquaintances is *Backblaze* network backup.
>
> It's not a substitute for local and off-site direct backups. I'm sure that
> as
> professionals in an IT-related field we all have all those in hand. And
> for
> those with just a laptop rather than a big raid array etc all the
> operating
> systems now make it trivially easy (and cheap) to plug in a little USB
> drive
> and be backed up. But our less technical friends and family may just not
> have
> got round to it yet; and if they have - especially with a laptop - they
> may
> not remember to plug the backup drive in very often.
>
> There are lots of network backup options of course - I could never get
> round
> to setting it up for my family's machines because there were too many
> options
> to choose between, and surely I should go one of the free setups between
> computers... etc. Too many options, result inertia.
>
> What makes Backblaze fantastic, in my opinion, is that they've cut through
> all
> of that, reducing to the absolute minimum the effort and choices required.
> Go
> to https://backblaze.com, click "try it for free", enter your email
> address
> and make up a password. It downloads a little installer - you run that and
> you're essentially done.
>
> They bake your email/password into the installer so you don't have to do
> anything else. After a while they'll email you to tell you how it's going;
> eventually they'll email to invite you to give them your credit card if
> you
> want to keep going. There is a control panel, there are options, there are
> other groovy features - but if you never know about or touch them you'll
> still
> be getting backed up.
>
> There are also no plans to choose between: it's $60/computer/year,
> regardless
> of how big (or how many) the drive(s) attached to that computer.
>
> Backblaze are very clear that this shouldn't be your first- or second-line
> backup. They're right. But if I ask my spouse or child when they last
> plugged
> the backup drive into their laptop, I know the answer will make me cry.
> The
> fact that Backblaze will have kept running to the last minute they closed
> the
> lid is my sanity clause. When bad things inevitably happen - and of course
> it
> will fall to me to deal with it - I will be able to rescue their
> undeserving
> asses!
>
> I don't want to give you an affiliate link because I'd rather you got
> backed
> up than doubted the purity of my evangelism! If you're all covered, good
> for
> you. But if you're not, or if your cousin, colleague, or chiropractor look
> like they need a clue - I think this is a very small amount of money to
> increase peace of mind.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 19/03/2019 16:59, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
> > Just a reminder... On Win 10 my 2 TB Raid 1 array using 1.3 TBs
> containing
> > all my data, 3 dev VMs and all my source code was corrupted. It took a
> very
> > annoying day to replace HW(controller) and recover data/VMs from my
> backups.
> > All is back with NO data loss.
> >
> > As it has been said here before "Raid is not a substitute for backups". I
> > have multiple copies with at least 1 off-line(crypto locker/power surge)
> and
> > 1 off-site(fire/theft). I don't use any cloud backups. Why? MySpace lost
> 12
> > years of user data last year. Although cloud backup reliability is high
> it's
> > not high enough for me to bet my business on not to mention how long it
> > would take to download 1.3 TBs. Although all my Mac data is an SMB to the
> > Win Raid I still use Time Machine on the Mac so I don't need to
> re-install
> > components needed development.
> >
> > Stay vigilant my friends.
> >
> > Ralph DiMola
> > IT Director
> > Evergreen Information Services
> > rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> >
> >
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