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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
"it's connected permanently to my computer." Then it's not a true backup.
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It protects against any but the largest power surges, accidental data loss, filesystem corruption... sounds like a backup to me. It won't protect against the house burning down, but that's what my
other backup (an encrypted USB HDD swapped out irregularly for another one 200 miles away) is for. The offsite backup disk is smaller and cheaper and is only backed up to once per week: the "onsite" permanently-connected one is huge and updated every couple of hours: I use bup, which while arcane is good for insanely frequent backups, since each one only takes a minute or two. (Everything important is also kept elsewhere on the net courtesy of Tahoe-LAFS and/or git.)
I may go too far in backing stuff up.
but it's damn useful to know that if you make a lethal typo you won't have lost more than an hour or two of stuff no matter what. (I am working on improving things so that the backups are truly continuous, trickled out so that only a few seconds of data will normally be lost.)
(... but I don't back up my Kindle. Sodding DRM makes that more or less pointless.)