On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well as I said earlier, I mainly want to have files that I consider critical > backed up somewhere. I'd say all data needs at least one backup. Critical stuff should also be off-site in addition to the local backups. If you won't or can't do an off-site backup, well maybe it isn't really critical, but then you need at least two local backups. Because of the high time penalty for cloud backup service restore, you may want a 2nd local backup anyway, just in case. > I'm not very much concerned about equipment failure and > downtime. Discounting downtime is OK. Discounting equipment failure probably isn't. You need to understand what the consequences are if any two individual pieces of equipment fail at the same time, and mitigate that somehow. e.g. Crashplan explicitly supports Linux, Backblaze explicitly does not. Amazon Glacier is fairly inexpensive and equivalent or better to the reliability of tape and cheaper for most cases; a small percentage of retrieval per month is free, but if you go over that (i.e. a full blown recovery is needed rather than just an accidentally deleted or corrupted file) it can be expensive. There are 3rd party calculators for computing this, it's not exactly obvious what things will cost just based on their rather convoluted pricing page. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
