iPS 241: A Backup Fetishist

Panel: Gui RamboErica Sadun Special Guest: Marin Todorov In today's episode, the iPheaks panelist Erica and Gui talk about backups. Why are backups important, how to maintain up-to-date local and off-site backups and backup service suggestions. Gui and Erica share examples and horror stories of neglecting to backup data. This is a great episode to learn about when, why and how to backup your devices and computers to cloud services, and best practice for categorizing your personal and business data for backup. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Paranoid back upNot everything can get synced up to GitHubEmail,  personal materials, etc.Horror storiesPersonal catastropheLosing a businessWhere does your data live?Personal and financial costWhat are not backups -  Dropbox, cloud, etcDropBox is only one component of a backupCloud storage componentsHaving a mix of cloud, and localized backs, and introducing redundancyNatural disasters and thiefOffsite Github backup Git Repo Privacy, private repo, etc.Bit Bucket -  similar to GitHubSource Forge Amazon web service AWS Glacier AWS S3ARQBack BlazeBack Blaze B2Time Machine alone is not efficientBootable backupsCarbon Copy Cloner Scheduler for backupsTime Machine failAnd much much more! Links: https://github.com/github/backup-utilshttps://github.comhttps://bitbucket.orgAmazon web serviceAWS S3ARQBack BlazeBack Blaze B2 Picks: Gui CloudFlare Workers Erica NOTI