FND-Backups
Data Backup Best Practice
Keywords: Data backup technologies and best practice
Contents
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Abstract
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Prerequisites
This unit has no prerequisites.
Objectives
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Outcomes
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Deliverables
- Time management: Before you begin, estimate how long it will take you to complete this unit. Then, record in your course journal: the number of hours you estimated, the number of hours you worked on the unit, and the amount of time that passed between start and completion of this unit.
- Journal: Document your progress in your course journal.
- Insights: If you find something particularly noteworthy about this unit, make a note in your insights! page.
Evaluation
Evaluation: NA
- This unit is not evaluated for course marks.
Contents
When was the last time you made a full backup of your computer's hard-drive? Too long ago? I thought so.
Backup your hard-drive now.
Risk is probability times damage; annualized HD failure rates OTO 3%; SSD ~ one OOM lees; Dataloss: but not a question of if, but when; what is the damage of losing your course notes? your project two days before due dat? your music? your photos? ... enterprise-scale data needs dedicated solution; small scale back up: various options; cloud backup may be bandwidth limited; Apple has things well covered with time-machine / Time capsule; equivalent for other systems ???; off-machine storage in removable disk questionable: everything that is not fully automatic is questionable; differential backup whenever possible; part of hygiene like brushing teeth; NO backup is a backup unless recovery has been tested and shown to work.
Further reading, links and resources
Notes
Self-evaluation
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About ...
Author:
- Boris Steipe <boris.steipe@utoronto.ca>
Created:
- 2017-08-05
Modified:
- 2017-08-05
Version:
- 0.2
Version history:
- 0.2 Begin development from legacy material; points only
- 0.1 First stub
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