{"id":1527,"date":"2013-12-15T00:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:34:33","slug":"the-making-of-me-chschmid-com-part-8-backup-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"The Making of me.chschmid.com, Part 8: Backup Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apart from some minor owncloud glitches me.chschmid.com<\/a> is running pretty smoothly right now. It’s doing a great job, both as my server<\/a> and my Desktop replacement<\/a>. But I can’t guarantee that it will stay that way. Neither can I expect the hard disk drives (HDD) to last forever nor can I guarantee that some idiots won’t burn down the apartment building by setting their Christmas tree on fire. (Don’t laugh, it has happened to my sister)<\/p>\n

\"Burning_Logitech_12\"<\/a> Used under\u00a0CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, originally by Diether<\/a><\/p>\n

So a backup strategy is in inevitable. Now for the first scenario (a dying HDD) people have come up with a solution known as RAID. However that is not what I am doing. For simplicity, I just copy most of my important stuff from one HDD to another once a day. – Actually the server does this automatically via a cron job<\/a> file \/etc\/cron.d\/cSBackupLocal<\/p>\n

12 4    * * *    root    \/usr\/local\/bin\/cSBackupLocal.sh;<\/pre>\n
which executes a simple rsync script \/usr\/local\/bin\/cSBackupLocal.sh that does<\/p>\n
# Backup data from first hard drive (me1) to second hard drive (me2)\r\n\r\n# GIT - My life and stuff\r\nrsync -a --delete \/media\/me1\/git\/   \/media\/me2\/Backup\/git\r\n\r\n# Music - My other life support\r\nrsync -a --delete \/media\/me1\/Music\/ \/media\/me2\/Backup\/Music\r\n\r\n# owncloud\r\nrsync -a --delete \/media\/me1\/ocdata\/ \/media\/me2\/Backup\/ocdata<\/pre>\n
The second scenario (house burning down) can not be dealt with that easily. E.g., with the two HDDs that do the mirroring once a day at the same location, a fire would destroy both. So you have to have a copy at some other place.<\/p>\n
My most important things (about 20 megs) I have in an encrypted archive that is synced to Dropbox. Things like my Keepass file<\/a> and Scans of important documents. – You are right, they might give that file to the NSA or something, but as it is encrypted they’ll chew on it for a while.<\/p>\n
The only viable solution for my more extended remote backup is to have an external hard drive, that I bring for doing a backup every now and then. When it is not plugged into my server for backup it is stored away\u00a0safely somewhere else. – As in not within a 5 km range of my apartment. Obviously this system has flaws, like if there is a fire the day I do the external backup, I am still screwed. – But I guess that is as safe as it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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