Re: [rdiff-backup-users] external hard disk backups - best practice

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Warren and all,

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Warren Guy wrote:

> While this won't help you get your data back, perhaps a point that can 
> be made from your unfortunate story is the importance of maintaining 
> more than one set of backups. A second backup set would potentially 
> allow recovery of data in this and other circumstances where recovery 
> from another backup disk fails for whatever reason.
>
> Perhaps others can add other "best practice" tips they have, for the 
> benefit of current and future readers of the list?

I rdiff-backup to two locations, one onsite and one offsite. Even if I 
lose my onsite backup through some unfortunate accident, I won't lose the 
offsite one. And it being offsite would discourage me from pulling the 
disk out and sticking it into the machine to be restored :-)

Note that this would work _much_ better if rdiff-backup was not so 
inefficient in its use of network bandwidth. It transfers about 
1GB of metadata every day over the network, for about 300GB of backed-up 
files, and takes 4-12 hours to do so.

Cheers, Chris.
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