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Recreatable – Data which is a distillation of other content – e.g., the movies I’ve encoded from DVD for easy accesss.

Non-recreatable – Data that I can’t recreate “as is”: Email, documents, iTunes purchased music, etc.

(I like reports.)Īs an aside, for the purposes of backing up over a slow link where I have to be selective, I classify data as follows: That’s the first thing I like about Crashplan – I get a weekly report showing how much data I’m protecting, how much of it has been backed up, and what machines that data belongs to. That being said, I’ve managed in the last few months, given a host of distractions, including moving house, to push a reasonable chunk of non-recreatable data across to Crashplan: So, contrary to everything I talk about, I have to run an inclusive backup policy for cloud backups – I select explicitly what I want backed up. At last count, Darren and I have about 30TB of allocated storage at home, of which about 10TB is active storage. On standard ADSL2, with an uplink speed currently maxing out at 600Kbps, I don’t have the luxury of backing up everything I have to a cloud provider.

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(In fact, so far I’ve only been working on getting Mac OS X clients backing up.) Since it has clients for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris, I’m fairly covered for options. It costs me $12 US a month – I could bring that down to an effective $6 US monthly charge by paying up-front, but I prefer the minimised regular billing option over a single, up-front hit.Ĭrashplan+ Family Unlimited allows me to backup as much data as I want from up to 10 computers, all tied to the same account. Specifically, I chose the “ CrashPlan+ Family Unlimited Monthly Subscription” option. So a bit of digging around led me to Crashplan.

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I could never quite bring myself to paying for the full service, and once they introduced their pricing changes, I was rather grateful I’d abandoned it – too pricey, and prone on the Mac at least to deciding it needed to start all backups from scratch again. Some time ago, I used Mozy, but found it somewhat unsatisfying to use. Inevitably though, for personal backups that are off-site as quickly as possible, cloud represents an obvious option, so long as your link is fast enough. Removable hard-drives stored elsewhere exist more for disaster recovery purposes – best used for data that doesn’t change frequently, or for data you don’t need to recover instantly – such as media. I have a variety of backup options in use that provide local protection, but providing off-site protection is a little more challenging. Stepping back from the enterprise level, one thing I’m quite cognisant of as a “backup expert” is designing my own systems for recovery. Take that problem away, and cloud data protection becomes a lot better. It’s a good change to witness, and it’s proven to me that my key concerns with data protection in the cloud originated from poor practices.

Recently I’ve been working with a cloud service provider to build a fairly comprehensive backup model, and it’s greatly reassuring to see companies starting to approach cloud with a sensible, responsible approach to data protection processes. Some supposedly “enterprise” vendors won’t even let you see what their data protection options are, until you sign an NDA. It’s still an evolving model, and many cloud vendors take the process of backup and data protection a little to cavalierly – pushing it onto the end users. Those who regularly follow my blog know that I see cloud as a great unknown when it comes to data protection.