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  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday August 31 2015, @10:08AM

    by KritonK (465) on Monday August 31 2015, @10:08AM (#230074)

    I take full backups on an additional internal disk. This way, taking backups is very fast, which means I can do it very frequently and:

    • If my main disk fails, I can replace it, restore from backup, and I'm back in business in next to no time, with hardly any data lost.
    • If the backup disk fails, I can replace it, take a new backup, and I'll be back to the way things were before the failure.
    • If someone steals my computer, well... um...
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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday August 31 2015, @06:43PM

    by bart9h (767) on Monday August 31 2015, @06:43PM (#230353)

    Why not a RAID-1, then?

    • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:29AM

      by KritonK (465) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:29AM (#230739)

      Because RAID is not backup! Good luck recovering an accidentally deleted file from a RAID-1. If you're lucky, you might be able to recover it with an undelete program, if one is available for the file system that you use, and the file has not been overwritten. With a recent full backup always at hand, restoring individual lost files is trivial and guaranteed to work.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday September 04 2015, @12:58PM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday September 04 2015, @12:58PM (#232223) Journal

        Snapshots on top of a raid running on drbd blocks over a multi site system?