192: What is your backup strategy? 📼

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In this episode, we talk about what a good backup strategy looks like and the different kinds of data you should be backing up.

Stay safe and think about your backup strategies.

Shownotes

3-2-1 Backup Rule

• The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
• The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – An Efficient Data Protection Strategy
• Why 3-2-1 Backup Sucks

Backup Software

• KG's primary Mac:

  • SuperDuper! by Shirt Pocket for bootable backups
  • Arq Backup for versioned backups -> Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

• rsync script that KG uses:

This mirrors both drives defensively (-n is dry run)

    rsync --partial --progress --archive --update \
      --verbose\
      --human-readable\
      --exclude='$RECYCLE.BIN' --exclude='$Recycle.Bin' --exclude='.AppleDB' \
      --exclude='.AppleDesktop' --exclude='.AppleDouble' --exclude='.com.apple.timemachine.supported'\
      --exclude='.dbfseventsd' --exclude='.DocumentRevisions-V100*' --exclude='.DS_Store'\
      --exclude='.fseventsd' --exclude='.PKInstallSandboxManager' --exclude='.Spotlight*'\
      --exclude='.SymAV*' --exclude='.symSchedScanLockxz' --exclude='.TemporaryItems'\
      --exclude='.Trash*' --exclude='.vol' --exclude='.VolumeIcon.icns' --exclude='Desktop DB'\
      --exclude='Desktop DF' --exclude='hiberfil.sys' --exclude='lost+found'\
      --exclude='Network Trash Folder' --exclude='pagefile.sys' --exclude='Recycled'\
      --exclude='RECYCLER' --exclude='System Volume Information' --exclude='Temporary Items' --exclude='Thumbs.db'\
      -n\
      /Volumes/xhd_strg/ /Volumes/xhd_strg_bkp

Misc

• Wirecutter recommends SeaGate drives instead of the Western Digital Kaushik uses 🤷‍♀️

Sponsors 🙏

Square

Check out the new Square YouTube channel for developers. Square has SDKs and APIs to make payments and run a business.

Contact

• @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel

• @donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)

• kaushikgopal (on YouTube) or blog.kaush.co or @kaushikgopal