{"id":13472,"date":"2008-12-03T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/03\/online-backups.html"},"modified":"2008-12-03T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:40:56","slug":"online_backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/online_backups.html","title":{"rendered":"Online backups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, this is my new geeky Holy Grail.<\/p>\n

I’ve done periodic copies to an external drive for a few years now, but that’s turning out not to be a reliable backup process because of operator error and hardware limitations.<\/p>\n

What I think I really want to do is pursue an online backup system solution, like these<\/a>. The way these work is that you load a client, identify the folders to backup and the schedule under which to do them, and the system starts copying them to an online archive (encrypted, etc.), and, after the initial upload, uploads any changed or added files. Common features include scheduling, monitoring for system activity (so that the process doesn’t mess up the machine), restores, etc.<\/p>\n

I’m still in the middle of researching, but it looks promising — and the more idiot-proof I can make this, the better. As a rough guesstimate, my My Documents directory on my PC is about 30Gb in size — some of that I might skip, some I might not, but in either case I want to be sure I can recover that data or save myself from foolish deletions.<\/p>\n

My question to my Loyal Readers is: Do any of you have any experience in something like this, and\/or services you would recommend (for or against)?<\/p>\n

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