On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:00:47PM -0500, Lee wrote: > On 11/15/18, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:43:30AM -0500, Lee wrote: > >> implying you keep lots of backups. For how long? > > > > Depends. Backups of your 1-2 GB of root/var can be kept for a year, > > given weekly backups and a typical multi TB NAS. > > Private user's data can be measured in terabytes, so keeping more than a > > couple of backups is problematic. > > There we go :) You've been talking enterprise grade backup standards - > right?
Nope. That's my home setup. Assorted collection of my private files is worth 2.4Tb, and that's excluding wife's and kids'. All stuff is triple-mirrored (as in - three different devices), total hardware cost is less than $500 disks excluded. I don't speak of enterprisey things on this list. But I admit that certain habits crept from office to the home ;) > Which is fine & maybe someday I'll get there. But right now simple, > easy & blatantly obvious something worked or no is more important to > me. A single consumer-grade NAS with a lowly RAID1 is simple to me. Reco
