December 14, 2009
International Backup Awareness Day

Coding horror has, after their mishap last week, declared International Backup Awareness Day. Speaking again as someone who has had this happen more than once, I have learned about backups and disaster recovery. In fact, I'm happy to say that the last time I had issues, when a bad controller brought down 3 drives simultaneously in my 5 disk RAID5 array, having an "offsite" (read: USB HD plugged into the back of the server) backup saved my ass. Previous times I haven't been so lucky :)





Posted by Arcterex at December 14, 2009 02:39 PM
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You can listen to it on http://hearablog.com/site/2/Coding-Horror#231


Posted by: J. Pablo Fernández on December 14, 2009 11:25 PM

At home I have 2 computers with copies of most of each other's data, plus an external drive with a copy.

But at work... IBM SAN + additional disk storage for short term backups + tape backup + offsite storage of tapes (Iron Mountain) + secondary site with a fair amount of backup information.

I think we are mostly covered.


Posted by: RoundTop on December 15, 2009 8:11 AM
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