Backup is important. Having used computers for over a decade (man I’m getting old) one of the biggest lessons I have learned is that harddrives are a real softspot. You’r computer is nothing more then a calculator (a really nice and shiny one) that does cool stuff to you’r data. If you loose you’r computer but have you’r data, you are fine. If you loose you’r data (screw the computer) you are screwed. I use google docs and gmail to back up most of my important documents and schoolwork, but I still need some real backup for a couple of important things:
- Digital music collection
- Digital photos
- Assorted files and school projects (code and the like)
- This server
The first 3 are safe with external usbs and TimeMachine, this server is not that easy (not hard, but try to beat TimeMachine) to back up. It’s not a fancy server, but I want a nice set-up that would allow the following:
- Hourly (or say every 6 hours) backup
- Full system restore in 1-3 hours
- Reboot restore (a dream where the backup is a backup system that the computer boots from if the other disk dies)
With TimeMachine I experienced full system restore in about 1-2 hours (from the time I started to recover the backup, not the time it took to get Apple to give me a new hdd for my MacBook). It was painless and when I booted up it was as if I had just turned my computer off for a really long time, genius. With my Ubuntu I’m thinking a second drive that mirrors the original, this should be possible, but I’m no genius with Linux (yet at least) and it may be impossible to get a another hdd that is the excact same that is in there now, this can get hairy. Anyways the backup of this server/site is important and I will post as I work something out. In the meantime, always remember to back it up!
My serverpark that hosts this singel blog (is joke yes)
