that’s whacked

on the issue of backups

Monday, Mar 7. 2005  –  Category: Computers

how much backing up is too much? or maybe i should ask how little is not enough? same question i suppose. or at least the same issue.

grommit currently has a few drives: 20gb = system boot drive 52gb = web & photo gallery drive (27gb remaining) 74gb = email and home directory drive (19gb remaining)

and a 60gb drive used to backup the web/photo gallery/mail/homedirs onto every night. i also periodically go in and do a full backup onto a removable hard drive.

here’s my dilemma. the math-savvy among you will notice (52-27)+(74-19) = 80. the real math whizzes might even say ‘but steve… 80 > 60′ (remember the 60gb backup drive?) to which i reply, ‘yes. yes it is.’

which is why i’ve temporarily elected to stop backing up certain user’s home directories (namely, the ones who don’t update/upload stuff as frequently). this is a temporary solution until i can find a big (120? 250?) gb drive i can use as a monster backup drive to do the nightly backups to.

and on a secondary note, for the truly truly paranoid grommit users (i only say this because i had one person ask, and it had never occured to me before). if you have a drive you want me to backup all your personal grommit stuff onto: home directory, photo gallery, email, blog, etc. - i’ll be happy to make a personal backup for you so you can hold onto it - just in case grommit, myself, my house in Oakland, and my off-site peer backup in Toronto all spontaneously combust… and no, i can’t burn it onto CDs for you because grommit has no CD burner, sorry. this free personal backup offer only applies for usb pluggable hard drives.