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Originally Posted by TheDA
Acronis all the way. Critical stuff backs-up every 4 hours. Other stuff every 8. Back-up is swapped with a second on-site unit in a fire safe at the end of every day.
All of this, rotated with an off-site backup in another fire safe every 3-4 days.
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Nice. But a lot of work to take and swap offsite every three days. But that is about what must be done if you want to be fully safe.
The one problem.. which you take care of through the 3-4 days rotation altho you have only about a one week buffer (as I see it, I could be wrong) if THIS happens:
You delete a file or dir by mistake.
It goes thru the chain and in one week file no more anywhere.
So you need the history of hard disk bups to really be safe. Not saying you dont do hard disk too. Just a good example for discussion. So too close of bups and you could delete something. Too far and you lose a few more days if things go down.
I go about a 2 week buffer between 2 ext hds which gives me 2 weeks to discover I deleted something.
After all the chance of one of two ext hds going down is nill (redundancy) while the chance of deleting a file is quite high.
But good system all in all
