Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 8:13 AM Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote:
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> Actually this had me thinking what is the need to back up the ... Internet?

I'm sure the NSA knows the answer to this.  Based on discussions I've
had with people who are into such things they basically have their own
Wayback machine, except it obviously doesn't respect robots.txt or
takedown requests.

I kind of wish the NSA sold IT services to the general public.  I just
assume they probably have root on all my devices and their own backups
of everything on them.  It would be nice if I had a disaster if I
could just pay them to buy back a copy of my data, instead of having
to have my own completely redundant backups.

I'm personally using duplicity for encrypted cloud backups of the
stuff that is most critical (documents, recent photos, etc), AWS
Glacier for stuff I want long-term backups of (older photos mostly),
and then bacula to store local copies of everything I have any
interest in because that is easier than trying to restore it all off
of Amazon if I lose an array or whatever.  AWS Glacier is actually
pretty cheap for backup, but be prepared to pay a fair bit for
restoration.  I'd only need to go to them in a serious disaster like a
house fire, so having to pay $100 or whatever to get them to mail me a
hard drive with my data isn't really that big of a deal.  My backups
are generally one-way affairs.

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Rich