Chris Samuel posted on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:13:42 +1100 as excerpted: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 04:14:16 PM Sander wrote: > >> But if the filesystem or underlaying disk goes up in flames, the >> snapshots are toast as well. So you need additional backups, preferably >> not on the same hardware, for real protection against data loss. > > ...and don't forget to think about off-site backups too. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/94482242@N00/7746409996/ While I realize that was in reference to the "up in flames" comment and presumably if there's a need to worry about that, offsite backup /is/ of some value, for some people, offsite backup really isn't that valuable. I figure if something like that happens here, I'll have FAR more pressing things to worry about for awhile than restoring my computer. And by the time life does get somewhat back to normal and I can think about the data that was on the computer, I might as well do over from scratch, like I will have done with much of the rest of my life by that point. The real valuable data is backed up where it counts -- to my head -- and if I lose that, well, I won't be very worried about it any more, will I? Of course if I were a bush doctor like the guy who owned the computer in that photo apparently was, then there'd be other people's medical records and the like to worry about too, and having offsite backups of that /would/ be important! And of course the same would apply if I had a bunch of family pictures on the computer to worry about, but for that I'd need a family first... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
