Backups?

[ciphergoth]

babysimon reacted with horror when I told him at the weekend that we still hadn't sorted backups out, and pressed a spare 250GB USB external drive into my hands.

What's everyone's favourite way of doing backups? We have a Windows and a Linux laptop to back up, both are switched on at unpredictable times. I just had a go at making brad's "brackup" go, but despite the great attraction of GPG-encrypted backups, it doesn't seem to be ready for prime time yet - the documentation isn't there yet, and it creates zillions of tiny encrypted files. I am resisting the temptation to write my own Python-based alternative. What do you use?

Update: I since found this rather nice solution.

Comments

[stilettowhore.livejournal.com]

Personally I have a scheduled job that runs a 1-line batch file:
xcopy c:\stuff d:\stuff /s/e/v

Software RAID only works as well as the driver that's doing the writing, as one of our clients found out the hard way when the Intel ICH6 driver that runs their 2-drive RAID-1 system decided to corrupt the file system. Breaking the RAID, running CHKDSK, then putting the RAID back together again fixed the problem, but obviously the whole point of this was that you shouldn't have to do that in the first place.