{"id":1777,"date":"2016-02-04T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2016-02-28T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T07:51:22","slug":"backing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2016\/backing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up with a reliable backup policy is a challenge as data volumes grow. My approach is as follows. On a weekly basis I do a full backup of the system disk of the more &quot;volatile&quot; PCs in our collection, plus a differential backup of the other disks. The best tool for full backups appears to be Acronis, but it has a brain-dead approach to partial backups, which cannot always be restored if you don&#8217;t have every file in the chain, and it&#8217;s just not reliable enough. I therefore also continue to use the venerable Windows <em>ntbackup<\/em>, even under Windows 10, as I still haven&#8217;t found a better option which supports a true &quot;differential&quot; model.<\/p>\n<p>Every three or four months I then do a full backup of every disk in every PC, and re-set the baseline for the differential backups. That&#8217;s due for this weekend, and as a result I&#8217;m trying to finish processing images from some previous trips, so they will be fully backed up in their complete form. I have about 100 images from Santorini to process today, and then I get to a very neat breakpoint. I&#8217;m not sure whether such a deadline really helps, but at least it drives me to keep my photography backlog under control.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above is mainly just to provide a bit of colourful cheer on a damp and windy February morning. Enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up with a reliable backup policy is a challenge as data volumes grow. My approach is as follows. On a weekly basis I do a full backup of the system disk of the more &quot;volatile&quot; PCs in our collection, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2016\/backing-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3,60,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}