[ale] Hard Drive recovery of data help please

[JD]

On 04/21/2014 05:14 PM, Jones, Donald wrote:
> If you don't mind me asking, what is your (personal/desktop) backup solution? 
> And should backups be daily?
> 

rdiff-backup - versioned backups are CRITICAL.  A mirror is NOT enough, IMHO.

*
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/10/08/optimized-backups-for-physical-and-virtual-machines
* http://blog.jdpfu.com/2013/10/20/rdiff-backup-real-use

Backup Best Practices (IMHO):
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/11/12/best-practices-for-home-desktop-computer-backups

Clearly, for large media collections, a mirror is all that is usually possible,
if even that, but for the HOME, settings and other critical data, I like to have
60-90 days of incremental backups, performed nightly.

My daily use desktop:
$ df
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        14G   11G  1.7G  87% /


Here's my daily use desktop backups:
# rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes  lubuntu
        Time                       Size        Cumulative size
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Apr 21 02:03:08 2014         5.52 GB           5.52 GB   (current mirror)
Sun Apr 20 02:03:07 2014         17.8 MB           5.54 GB
Sat Apr 19 02:03:06 2014         9.86 MB           5.55 GB
Fri Apr 18 02:03:07 2014         19.1 MB           5.56 GB
Thu Apr 17 02:03:06 2014         8.93 MB           5.57 GB
Wed Apr 16 02:03:07 2014         9.19 MB           5.58 GB
Tue Apr 15 02:03:07 2014         18.9 MB           5.60 GB
Mon Apr 14 02:03:07 2014         8.57 MB           5.61 GB
 .......
Sun Feb 23 02:03:06 2014         10.3 MB           6.15 GB
Sat Feb 22 02:03:08 2014         26.3 MB           6.17 GB
Fri Feb 21 02:03:10 2014         8.18 MB           6.18 GB
Thu Feb 20 02:03:08 2014         8.94 MB           6.19 GB

Any questions?