What’s the best way to make an offsite backup for 42tb at this point with 20mbps of bandwidth? It would take over 6 months to upload while maxing out my connection.
Maybe I could sneakernet an initial backup then incrementally replicate?
Outside my depth but I'll give it a stab. Identify what data is important, (is the full 42Tb needed?). Can the data be split into easier to handle chunks?
If it is, then I personally do an initial sneakernet to get the fist set of data over. Then mirror different on a regular basis.
Yes and of course as per usual here is the needed comment saying RAID is not a backup.
any opinions about leaving a drive or two at work? I'm wondering if there's any risk to this, but it seems a convenient way to have off-site storage if I leave a couple drives in my drawer at work. encrypted of course...
My only concern would be if you end up leaving the company it might look suspicious when you're packing up some hard drives along with the rest of the stuff from your desk. Particularly if you're laid off, fired, etc.
I think it's as equally important to remember; A backup is not back up... Until you've restored from it.
Test your backups, folks.
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