{"id":1290,"date":"2008-09-04T17:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2008-09-04T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:02:03","slug":"my-current-data-backup-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2008\/09\/04\/my-current-data-backup-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"My current data backup strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how I&#8217;m backing up my important personal data these days. It&#8217;s not perfect but I think it&#8217;s better than nothing.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"btyb1\">Level one &#8211; Apple Time Machine (daily)<br id=\"h.oy\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Pros<br id=\"btyb3\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"btyb4\">\n<li id=\"btyb5\">Hourly backup when iMac turned on.<\/li>\n<li id=\"btyb6\">On-site, attached to iMac.<\/li>\n<li id=\"btyb7\">Backs up everything<\/li>\n<li id=\"btyb8\">Effortless<\/li>\n<li id=\"ma2e\">Relatively cheap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons<br id=\"btyb11\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"btyb12\">\n<li id=\"btyb13\">On-site &#8211; will be destroyed in fire<\/li>\n<li id=\"r_y.\">Could be stolen along with iMac<\/li>\n<li id=\"zmgo\">Disc will fail at some point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"yaa2\">Level two &#8211; DVD backup (weekly)<br id=\"h.oy0\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Pros<br id=\"yaa20\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"yaa21\">\n<li id=\"yaa22\">Archive quality disc<\/li>\n<li id=\"yaa23\">Less likely to fail than hard drive<\/li>\n<li id=\"yaa24\">Stored off site with friends and family<br id=\"apda\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"ma2e1\">Relatively cheap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons<br id=\"ma2e4\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"ma2e5\">\n<li id=\"ma2e6\">Harder to manage<\/li>\n<li id=\"ma2e7\">Labour intensive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"ma2e8\">Level three &#8211; online backup (monthly)<br id=\"h.oy1\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Pros<br id=\"ma2e9\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"ma2e10\">\n<li id=\"ma2e11\">Backed up to scalable server<\/li>\n<li id=\"ma2e12\">Taggable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons<br id=\"ma2e14\" \/><\/p>\n<ul id=\"ma2e15\">\n<li id=\"ma2e16\">Expensive<\/li>\n<li id=\"ma2e17\">Prohibitively expensive to backup music and video<br id=\"ma2e18\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"pmsl\">What I&#8217;m backing up<\/h2>\n<ol id=\"pmsl1\">\n<li id=\"pmsl2\">Priority one\n<ol id=\"pmsl3\">\n<li id=\"pmsl4\">Photos (iphoto)<br id=\"ipm3\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl5\">Music (itunes)<br id=\"ipm30\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl6\">Video (my flip video)<br id=\"ipm31\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl7\">Documents<\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl8\">Websites \/ portfolio work (mamp \/ htdocs)<br id=\"ipm32\" \/><\/li>\n<li id=\"b2hw\">Application serial numbers<br id=\"b2hw0\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl9\">Priority two\n<ol id=\"pmsl10\">\n<li id=\"pmsl11\">Applications<\/li>\n<li id=\"pmsl12\">Settings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I&#8217;m currently backing up my data at home. Works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,15,87],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-backup","tag-data","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}