It's BACKUP WEDNESDAY! Yay!

[JillSwift]

I'm having a "Restore Wednesday". My home media server gave up the ghost over the weekend. Bought a new hard drive yesterday, installed Ubuntu Server and now it's several hours of swapping and copying, copying and swapping.
Thanks previous backups!

Yay backups! =^_^=

[Mornedhel]

Tapes? I haven't used a tape-based system for nearly 17 years!

Tapes are still the best removable media for massive storage and rolling backups, y'know. Serious enterprise backup systems back up on tape (1 TB tapes). Works well as long as you don't need random access, only sequential.

[The Real Dave]

I've been way too lazy with my backups So the world decided to remind me of their importance by killing the superblock in my / partition, and making the heatsink on my backup server fail. Its a PIV, so it won't burn out the mobo, but it'll throttle itself to nothing. I seriously need to get rsync working

Time to boot up clonezilla

[xuCGC002]

It's Wednesday(ish), time to back up!

Do you have any data sitting on your hard drive that you'd just hate to lose?
No patience for sector-by-sector data recovery?

Then it's time to pop a CD-R or DVD-R into that drive and make yourself a backup.

Or copy it on to an external hard drive for a "soft backup".

Or pop it on your cloud server so they can lose it for you.

This BACKUP YOUR DATA reminder is brought to you this week by your friendly neighborhood reminder-er.

Unforunately(?) I don't own an optical drive, and cloud servers are out of the question. So I guess I'll just use a 4GB microSD card. Speaking of which, I only have 2GB free on my disk at the moment, I should consider asking for a new HDD during the holidays. At least that would free up my only IDE port to a DVD drive. Which I kinda need for some of my games that I haven't installed yet in WINE/Linux.

[megamania]

The biggest thing I need to keep is my emails which is collected by gmail apps account and I have a local copy of my emails too. (so that;s covered)

What do you use to backup your gmail account?

I've been thinking about backing up my email for a while now (after discovering the wonders of exclusively using gmail's web interface), but still haven't done it...

[SunnyRabbiera]

I have a separate /home partition so I really dont worry about distro upgrades, I am also not using Ubuntu right now, I am on openSUSE 11.1.

[JillSwift]

I have a separate /home partition so I really dont worry about distro upgrades, I am also not using Ubuntu right now, I am on openSUSE 11.1.

Backups are hedging your bets against the unknown. NO EXCUSES! BACKUP!

[lisati]

Backups are hedging your bets against the unknown. NO EXCUSES! BACKUP!

Well said.

[JillSwift]

Unforunately(?) I don't own an optical drive, and cloud servers are out of the question. So I guess I'll just use a 4GB microSD card. Speaking of which, I only have 2GB free on my disk at the moment, I should consider asking for a new HDD during the holidays. At least that would free up my only IDE port to a DVD drive. Which I kinda need for some of my games that I haven't installed yet in WINE/Linux.

Any backup beats none at all. =^_^=

[SuperSonic4]

I have plenty of backups ^.^

Unfortunately they're hopelessly out of date xD - still I can rebuild