Making Backups Useful
What’s really sad is that the small percentage of people who do make the heroic effort of backing up are kidding themselves if they think they’re much better protected. There are many, many ways a person can lose data. Too many to count, yet the backup strategies typically employed by “plain folks” protect against only two: hard drive failure and careless erasure. In a world where hard drive reliability is at an all time high, and most data sits in the “Trash Can” or “Recycle Bin” for some time before being permanently deleted, these particular dangers may be much less probable than other risks that are obliviously under-addressed.
One of these days, I should set up a script that copies my latest backups to the Web server in California.
hmm, the text wrap is not being helpful, I have separated the lines a little:
#!/bin/sh
LOGFILE=/Library/Logs/Console/501/console.log
date >> $LOGFILE
echo "Starting upload of compressed backup..." >> $LOGFILE
/usr/bin/curl --limit-rate 9K -s -S -T /Users/UserName/Documents/Backup/devbackup.tar.gz ftp://user:pass@domain.com/devdump/devbackup.tar.gz 2>&1 >> $LOGFILE
date >> $LOGFILE
echo "Finished upload of compressed backup." >> $LOGFILE