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Backups -Distributed and Otherwise
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
Equal opportunity comments today – seeking to point out some places where the open source world and the right bit of knowledge come together to set up a solution to your remote family tech support needs.
You have to admire those with the skills and fortitude of someone who has the knack to pull together on his own. Here’s one story:
The Distributed Family / Home Backup Network belongs to Tom Sayles at Soot-N-Smoke.com.
In his blog, he sets out the steps that he took on an HP Pavilion 500Mhz Celeron box at his dad’s home and turned it into a remote backup server. First, he resized the Windows 98 2nd edition partition (hda1) and installed the LAMP server version of Ubuntu 6.06 [Dapper Drake]. He also installed a new USB-2 card and a 500GB external hard drive. Here is where it gets dicey.
Tom added SSH and put Samba on his dad’s machine. Back home in Woodinville, WA, Tom fired up the other end of the system a $100 used IBM Personal Computer 300GL, 400MHz PII He is using rsync to push his material onto his dad’s machine, and presumably his dad is able to do the same.
The rest of us are good candidates for commercial services.
Based on personal experience – carrying 35mm negatives to the bank safety deposit box over the years to safeguard at least some family photos – it looks like backup is getting harder, not easier.
Your family memories and data might well benefit from have several means of backup.
About a year ago, there was a cautionary article from IBM at InfoWorld that cautioned that consumer CD’s may have a storage life of only two to four years. Those 120GB USB drives from Best Buy still need someone to do the backup, or a good scheduler program.
Whatever the process, if you are like me – it better be automatic.
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