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How do you backup your data at home?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @09:27PM
ugh well its hyperturtle posting anonymously because of a brain failure.
But yeah. I haven't been just replacing the raid with bigger drives over the years... I'm going to tape from the raid!
But boot drives can be imaged as well as cloned, and it is easier to rotate a clone or two around to boot from than to try to pull a disk image from tape to a drive that could have had a month old disk image anyway :)
*note, this is for home, not for work, and most people... don't have any solution, even if bad, so I condone, if not applaud, cloning disks even if it sucks for real professional backup purposes. waiting until you replace the drive is not when to back it up. But cloning a working boot volume on a regular basis beats just writing folders to a USB now and then.