This interview with Leo Enticknap, University of Leeds deals with backups but also file formats that scares me. This slightly tongue in cheek post then explains why you don’t want to do this at home! So that’s where all my photos are goingįurther on the subject of backups, you should really listen to this episode of The Naked Scientists podcast. It’s a small quibble and probably one I’ll soon forgive when my machine goes belly up and I’m desperately looking for a secure cert or the settings for some obscure program!Ĭurious about where your data lives when it’s in the cloud? That’s a Backblaze Pod there, and it has a raw capacity of 135TB but this post goes into a lot of detail about it and how it’s made. However, I’d rather have an include list because on this machine I really only care about my photos, some documents and my Thunderbird mail directory and I know where they live. Sensibly, it doesn’t backup “Program Files” or other system directories by default. ![]() The client has an exclusion list of directories so it’s easy to exclude directories you don’t want backed up. I told the backup client I wanted faster backups too! Uploading anything from here usually makes everything else crawl. Websites and videos still download and display promptly which surprised me. At this rate it’ll be a few months before everything is uploaded but the backup hasn’t really impacted on my day-to-day work. 681GB of that is 13 years worth of photos! My upstream bandwidth is horrendous but I still managed to upload 50GB over the last 20 days. Argh, I just handed over $95 for 2 years worth of Backblaze cloud backup and now they’re offering 3 months free if you sign up through this link before March 31st! It’s to celebrate World Backup Day, something I’m all in favour of since backups saved the day in 2008 when an external drive died on me.īTW, both those Backblaze links are affiliate links but I’m a happy customer and I’m currently backing up over 700GB of data to the cloud.
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