[Year 12 IT Apps] U4O2 - Maybe the cloud isn't so great...

[Roland Gesthuizen]

It's not a backup until the backup has left the building. Running a backup that you keep with your hardware is just begging for trouble (I'll admit I did this myself for too many years)

I now use a combination of Timemachine for all my devices that retains an incremental copy that I can roll back to and Superdooper that does a whole system snapshot. The latter is kept off site by swapping with my father who does the same with his system. Whilst this is OSX, you can set up something similar on a Wintel system.

Here is a great backup workflow video worth watching, overkill perhaps but it underscores what is important for enterprise deployments.
     http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/06/workflow-and-backup-for-photo-video/

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

On 16/08/2013, at 3:33 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> I've tried cloud backups from home with Crashplan.
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> Downloading one's backups from the cloud to restore lost data is a great idea. Uploading them, however, is a major PITA.
> ADSL is, by definition, asymmetrical - so I get on average 1Mbps upload (max) and 10 Mbps download.
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> If I need to backup any significant amount of data to the cloud, I cripple my web browsing for the duration because my upload bandwidth is saturated. So I have to schedule backups during non-browsing periods... which sort of ruins the appeal of instant, automatic backups.
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> So I return to backing up to naked HDDs in a caddy (this sort of thing) where I can be sure my data is safe... at least as far as any HDD is safe...
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> So I also back the stuff up to 2 NAS devices, and sometimes to DVD...
> And to hidden folders on my hosted domains...
> And I STILL manage to lose stuff over time.
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> I'm hanging out for the NBN to pass by so I can finally enjoy decent upload speeds...
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> On 16 August 2013 14:30, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> A bit like 3D TV methinks.
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> A good idea at the time, but now…
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
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> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/memsql-and-amazon/
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> Some say the cloud is not as good as good old servers in the back room...
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