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[{"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300201788.6303029, "message": "Couldn't find anything with a quick search. So, companies... what are you using for backups and what is your backup strategy? Open source vs commercial, simple vs complex. You are doing them... right? :)", "group_id": 97, "id": 357092}, {"user_id": 12892, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300318339.52999, "user_id": 17912}], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300202851.441813, "message": "Dropbox. As well as distributed version control that syncs files to servers off site.", "group_id": 97, "id": 357341}, {"user_id": 21746, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300208453.2987421, "message": "Dropbox free for small files I want synced between my computers. Externals HDs as file drops (want to set up a RAID, can't justify the money yet though). GFI Free Backup to automatically backup select folders to another External. I'm also thinking about Backblaze for my cloud redundant, a little cautious though about the overselling since Mozy... I also keep a Norton Ghost image of a fresh setup of my computer in case a reformat is necessary.", "group_id": 97, "id": 358594}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300212864.106153, "message": "...back to the company focus: how are you all implementing db backups, full disk backups etc", "group_id": 97, "id": 359115}, {"user_id": 1202, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300742856.9754, "user_id": 1063}], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300211424.075999, "message": "I heard that https://www.strongspace.com/ offered a good backup solution.", "group_id": 97, "id": 358980}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300212971.3982849, "message": "I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of \"that's someone else's problem\" :)", "group_id": 97, "id": 359122}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300212986.8158431, "message": "How often are you all validating your backups as well", "group_id": 97, "id": 359126}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300259455.4387879, "message": "i'm on rackspace cloud scheduled backup... production daily, dev weekly / monthly (depending on project), of course using git to work and loaded into Drobox directory", "group_id": 97, "id": 363449}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300259517.2862091, "message": "*knock on wood* never validate, and never have a need for the backup, with exception git / dropbox rollback", "group_id": 97, "id": 363450}, {"user_id": 18214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300285708.7074921, "message": "Netgear ReadyNAS (RAID drives) at home; Dropbox for day-to-day files; Backblaze for cloud backup; investigating Crashplan for remote backup (P2P with drive at friend's home).", "group_id": 97, "id": 366289}, {"user_id": 1102, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300299137.631222, "message": "Using EC2+rsync for backups of most external stuff with daily snapshots plus hourly database backups. We get emails that the backups run, but no real verification in place beyond that. Internal we have a couple things in place: a NAS and a time machine.", "group_id": 97, "id": 368171}, {"user_id": 2382, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300317280.5358319, "message": "Depends on the nature of the system, my preferred approach is a rapid rebuild using a combinations of puppet, chef, kickstart, jumpstart, subversion, dd and a number of perl scripts. Occasionally having to resort to Jython for some IBM stuff. Anything that has actual data as opposed to a configuration goes onto the SAN where its encrypted and replicated to two other locations. ", "group_id": 97, "id": 369977}, {"user_id": 17912, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300318410.870152, "message": "I use a combination of Dropbox, Carbonite, and a Drobo. Obviously, the Drobo hardware costs money, as does the Carbonite subscription, but both are worth it for peace of mind, especially if there are business files concerned.", "group_id": 97, "id": 370038}, {"user_id": 22019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300319933.4981401, "message": "Anyone have any software suggestions for backing up to S3? I want something like rsync, that isn't flakly or unstable.", "group_id": 97, "id": 370206}, {"user_id": 1102, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300321256.1281421, "message": "There is a (paid) service to rsync to S3. you can also use an EC2/EBS and run rsync to that. Due to how s3 works, you can't rsync directly (that I know of). There may be other services that also use s3", "group_id": 97, "id": 370364}, {"user_id": 5350, "stars": [{"date_created": 1304249051.7740331, "user_id": 486}], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300357557.4415281, "message": "@ebryn if you're on a Mac, Arq: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/", "group_id": 97, "id": 372843}, {"user_id": 2473, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300464308.7426119, "message": "We (http://tarpipe.com) have been using a custom rsync incremental backup solution and for offsite backups we user time machine.", "group_id": 97, "id": 383122}, {"user_id": 22019, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300473094.668503, "message": "I'm looking for something to use on our Linux servers, but thanks for the Mac suggestion @bminde", "group_id": 97, "id": 384432}, {"user_id": 216, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300479714.048064, "message": "Check out Crash Plan, we are implementing it for 1700+ VM's. So far it's in testing stages but works great. http://crashplanpro.com", "group_id": 97, "id": 385078}, {"user_id": 3094, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13204, "date_created": 1300654448.5108919, "message": "I'll add my vote for Crash plan as well. Been using it on my personal machines for a few years now.", "group_id": 97, "id": 393789}]