[mythtv-users] OT: Best Practices: Backup

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 12/31/13, 5:50 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>
>> DC-600 tapes, now that brings back fond memories!
>> No surprise on the restoring from one embedded in drywall. You could
>> hammer in nails with those old tapes!
>> I really have to get my DDS-3 tapes from my storage unit and get the
>> old tapes running again.
> Did I mention I wasn't real fond of DDS either?  That 4mm tape is *just*
> too damned narrow...
>
>> Right now, I'm exclusively on spinning magnetic, though most are all
>> RAID 5 or higher. Still, lose the controller or iron...
> Yup.  Or accidentally rm -rf in the wrong place.  Anything that is
> still connected isn't a 'backup'.
>  
>> We used to offsite the dailies. At the least, a few buildings away from
>> the primary site. We also backed up across campus to spinning magnetic
>> RAID storage.
> I used to think that was enough.
>
> And then 9/11 happened.  
>
> And then Katrina happened.
>
> What's next?
>
> (Did I mention "on a different geographic plate" in that list?)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
Well, with a Katrina level event, you need to be geographically distant
for your offsite to survive. Not many organizations can afford such a
thing (though, we did in the DoD).
Hmmm, maybe an off-planet backup?   ;)
Though, latency would be a killer.