The more I think about it, the more it bothers me that I don't have any offsite backups. If something was to happen to my house, everything I've ever worked on in my life would be gone. I'd have to start everything over totally from scratch. Countless years of work, and lot of stuff that is unrecoverable such as documentation that's taken me years to put together, complex server setups, source code to custom apps, pictures, etc.
I'm thinking of setting up public key ssh and rsync everything up to my dedicated server. I only have 120GB of space on the drive I plan to use for that so I could only backup the most critical stuff, which is probably source code and documentation. Stuff like pictures would be a huge loss but it's one of those things where the fact of loosing the house would greater anyway.
I've also thought of just having several 1TB drives and keep a few at the office in a rotation. I was actually doing that for a bit till I was moved offices but I have the room in my new office.
When I get my own house, I'll also have the option to have a vault in the shed or something so that is a plus. Though I'd have to keep it heated somehow as when I do a rotation, I don't think it would be good to turn on a HDD that's been sitting in -40 for a week.
For now I'll probably go with the ssh route as while I'm more limited on space and bandwidth, at least the benefit is that the data is completely out of the city. Should something huge happen like a large flood or tornado then the data is still safe as opposed to the other solutions, though the odds of such huge flood is retarded small, but you can never be too safe when it comes with data backups.
Just curious what other methods people are using these days for all of their personal data.
I'm thinking of setting up public key ssh and rsync everything up to my dedicated server. I only have 120GB of space on the drive I plan to use for that so I could only backup the most critical stuff, which is probably source code and documentation. Stuff like pictures would be a huge loss but it's one of those things where the fact of loosing the house would greater anyway.
I've also thought of just having several 1TB drives and keep a few at the office in a rotation. I was actually doing that for a bit till I was moved offices but I have the room in my new office.
When I get my own house, I'll also have the option to have a vault in the shed or something so that is a plus. Though I'd have to keep it heated somehow as when I do a rotation, I don't think it would be good to turn on a HDD that's been sitting in -40 for a week.
For now I'll probably go with the ssh route as while I'm more limited on space and bandwidth, at least the benefit is that the data is completely out of the city. Should something huge happen like a large flood or tornado then the data is still safe as opposed to the other solutions, though the odds of such huge flood is retarded small, but you can never be too safe when it comes with data backups.
Just curious what other methods people are using these days for all of their personal data.
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