On 05Sep2015 07:13, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: My BackupPC folder is about 190GB (backs up my home from the other drive, yes, if the whole system goes I'm screwed but at least the data is on two different drives; my HTPC, and my wife's laptop). That's why I'm looking at a 256GB SSD. A little bigger would be awesome but not in the budget.
I would argue for putting your backups on an external drive for three reasons. First, they're cheap and being your backup, performance is not such a big issue. I use a Western Digital 2TB My Passport for this (with a Mac, but that is irrelevant); it is cheap, big (lots of backup history) and importantly: bus powered USB. So it is just the drive and a short USB cable.
Second, using an external drive avoids making painful decisions about how big your internal drives are: they need to be big enough for your data, not for your unbounded backup history.
Third, an external drive can be _removed_. Here we live in fear of the day that the disaster that takes out the real data also corrupts the backup data. Having the drive physically offline in a drawer avoids this risk. It does require you to have the discipline to remember to plug it in and do a backup regularly.
Even if you do run internal backups (eg daily or whatever to a much smaller internal partition), do some external ones too.
Finally, I also recommend an SSD for your system drive. For /var, not so important, but the OS it is fantastic.
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