Your Personal Backup Plan (Not your websites)?

[Juo]

I was reading this article on LifeHacker and it got me thinking about my personal backup plan. I have a local and now offsite backup with http://www.backblaze.com/ which basically offer unlimited backup on your computer for anything except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or those over 4GB. for $5 / Month, I'm in the process of sending them 400GB of data which goes over a secure connection and is held securely by them.

I've tested it on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7, both machines are uploading during the trial 15 day period completely automatically as and when they are turned on and have a connection to the internet) and I defiantly plan on purchasing a fully fledged account, for both machines this will cost $10 / Month. Its going to take about a 1-2 months before everything from the initial backup is in the cloud.

I also have all my data backed up locally on a 2TB Time Machine (along with my Girlfriends and Flatmates)

The above processes are automated and I never really think about it.

I was wondering if the majority are as anal about backing up and what you're solutions are. Pictures of fancy NAS boxes are welcome

Juo Reviewed by Juo on 16th Nov 2009. Your Personal Backup Plan (Not your websites)? I was reading this article on LifeHacker and it got me thinking about my personal backup plan. I have a local and now offsite backup with http://www.backblaze.com/ which basically offer unlimited backup on your computer for anything except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or those over 4GB. for $5 / Month, I'm in the process of sending them 400GB of data which goes over a secure connection and is held securely by them. I've tested it on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows Rating: 5

[JmZ]

I just stick a backup of my important HDD on every other HDD I have password-protected.

Keeping in mind 2 of the HDDs are external, thats kind of offsite (they're stored away from my PC).

If I was really bothered and wanted to seriously backup every site i have the source to and all my scripts, then I'd put them encrypted to the maximum possible level on a server I own.

I'd never use a backup service, unless it was owned by some huge corporation which obviously wouldn't break privacy laws.

[Juo]

I guess fundamentally im trusting blackblaze with personal storage but after having conversations with their sales department I have no reason to believe that their not backing up my stuff securely (to the point that they dont have access).

On their website they have plenty of pictures of their setup http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content...er-servers.jpg it looks costly enough for it not to be a kiddie host.

We all trust these companies every day with our personal information, GMail, Web Hosts, Rapidshare etc

I cant see they would break this trust, their software is also excellent and cant have been made on the cheap.

[Hyperz]

CD/DVD-RW, I never do a complete FS backup. I just backup what is important. I personally think it is more practical.

[Mac]

Time Machine with an external HD.

[Super]

Time Machine with an external HD.

Nice one.

[JmZ]

We all trust these companies every day with our personal information, GMail, Web Hosts, Rapidshare etc

Personally though, I don't really host files from websites or personal data on my email or any host

But yeah, I see your point. I am really hard to convince though when it comes to trust.

[Th3_Narcissist]

I have a 250 GB External HD.