On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:06 PM Patrik Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a survey about backup software to learn more about what people > are using to do their backup and why they are using it. I invite individual > and business to answer the survey. > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HKKDG2J
Regarding your survey, I would have a few observations: * (1) in the first question, you could have provided a few more options (including `rdiff-backup`) since you're sending this email to its mailing list; * (3) in the third question about "what you are looking for in backup software", some items don't actually make sense for a "backup software" and seem to pertain more to a "backup cloud provider"; for example "high availability" or "low cost per GB" or "end-to-end encryption"; * (3) still with the third question, the "secure" option is too vague... do you mean "secure" as in "privacy", "secure" as in "redundancy", or as in "integrity"? * (7) the operating system selection, should allow one to choose more items; * I think you are missing a few important items, like: ** what does one "backup"? is it a file-system, is it a "raw" block-device, or is it a "dump" file or something similar; ** does one implement "incremental backups", or all individual backups are "full"; ** does one implement "backup rotation"; ** where does one store "offsite backups"? is it S3 (or something similar), is it a "backup provider", or something else? ** does one use (or wants to use) write-only media? (although these days even a BlueRay disk is quiet small compared to current data sizes, it might be an interesting option;) ** does one automate these backups? (or are they executed manually?) ** how often does one try to recover from the backups? (to make sure they are "usable"); (These are just a few questions I had, when I decided to use `rdiff-backup`.) (I've submitted your survey, however I find the questions somewhat unsuitable for obtaining some actual insights.) (Also as the previous email asks, I hope you'll make your findings public.) Ciprian. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
