Just to add my 2c considering I started the other thread,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not aiming to replace my backups and data is indeed in three places;</div><div><br></div><div>My main drive (esata)</div><div>My backup drive (USB)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another backup drive connected to a computer at my parents place, using crashplan over the Internet. </div><div><br></div><div>The holes in this plan that I can see are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Bitrot (discussed in other thread)</div>
<div>2. All backups are online. Someone malicious on my main pc could potentially wipe the remote backup through the crashplan GUI. This is a hole I&#39;d like to fix but it may be too inconvenient to fix at the moment. Some form of online but write only storage would be stellar.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Noah<span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, July 1, 2014,  &lt;<a href="mailto:zlinw@mcmedia.com.au">zlinw@mcmedia.com.au</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have been reading the &quot;btrfs/ZFS, sans raid and bitrot&quot; thread and a<br>
number of thoughts and questions spring to mind.<br>
<br>
I get the impression that some are looking for a single reliable storage<br>
solution to avoid having to do backups.<br>
<br>
Surely this is impossible, I certainly would ______NEVER______ (excuse the<br>
shouting) ever trust my life to a single system if at all possible. When<br>
one is doing instrument flying training as a pilot you are constantly told<br>
never to rely on a single instrument but scan all of them and come up with<br>
an overall coherent picture. If one relies in such circumstances on a<br>
single point of failure you __will__ kill yourself.<br>
<br>
One is told raid or any such thing is a reliabilty strategy __not__ a<br>
backup strategy.<br>
<br>
I personally keep all data I consider important on four separate<br>
systems/devices one device (which is in fact duplicate items but differing<br>
technolgies) being kept off site. Maintaining this is a bit of a pain but<br>
there is no other way as far as I can see.<br>
<br>
The reason for the number of separate backups is we had in one instance in<br>
a large commercial situation managed to destroy two backs trying to restore<br>
a system. We only succeeded in the end becuase I had independantly<br>
duplicated one of the backups on another system.<br>
<br>
Lindsay<br>
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