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  • (Score: 1) by saracoth on Friday August 28 2015, @08:10PM

    by saracoth (3631) on Friday August 28 2015, @08:10PM (#229161)
    1. A second internal HDD, manually synced daily (not a true mirror)
    2. Two external USB3 hard drives, one synced daily, one sitting idle at the office. Swapped weekly if I'm being a good boy.
    3. Mozy's free service for some small, non-sensitive files and personal programming projects

    All encrypted. Technically that includes Mozy, but I assume the worst as best practice.

    Almost finished with a Debian+LUKS+ZFS build. That'll scratch off #1 in favor of giving ZFS another drive (which doesn't count -- "RAID is not a backup" as they say). I'll probably do some research on #3.

    Years ago, I had a series of incremental backup CDs. I ended up writing some software to help me manage when to burn new discs, plus a database to look up which CD to reference if I needed a file. It was a fun project, but I'm glad to have moved on.

    Years before that, I suffered my first hard drive failure and lost everything. Fortunately I was young'un, so nothing of value was lost and I've been cautious since.