Raw MiniDV capacity varied up to 22GB depending on length and mode, much like 8mm or VHS-c, the tapes were extremely cheap, and such consumer formats produced a number of proper mid-range dedicated backup formats with reasonable mass market prices like D8.
HDDs are currently 20￠/GB, enterprise-scale BD-RE is half that, and LTO-8 is sliding under 1￠/GB. If normal people like us could buy drives and media like that at sane price, don't you think that might put a pretty huge dent in cloud meme? As for reliability, archival formulations for both have always outperformed HDDs by enormous margins.
It's nice that big HDDs are so cheap now, but things could be soo much better.
Asher Roberts
I use deja-dup. It's encrypted, it's periodic, it's automatic, it's incremental, it supports a variety of remote storage options, and it's backed by nested layers of tools that you could use without it. Above all, it's braindead simple to use. It takes less than a minute to set up. If you've been procrastinating on setting up a backup solution just use this, you can always switch to duplicity if you want something more elitist later.
Why aren't programs like this scheduled to run prior to shutdown instead of boot up? Or even better, give the user the option to choose.
Dominic Watson
Deja-dup is just scheduled to run once every n days. deja-dup-monitor is started to keep track, not to immediately perform a backup.
Josiah Wright
I do understand that. But couldn't it do that on shutdown? Or at least not start on boot?
Josiah Moore
I just checked, and deja-dup-monitor is taking up a grand total of 1.5 MB of RAM here. What's the problem? The reason it starts on session launch (when you get to your desktop, so not exactly on boot) is that all desktop environments support launching a process when they start, and people who are too autistic for that can just add it to their .xinitrc, but there's no good way to automatically start a process at any other moment. If you want to do that you need to have your own daemon. Which is what deja-dup-monitor is.
Ethan James
Whole operating systems used to be less than this.
Nathan Torres
Sure, but the laptop I bought for under a hundred yurobucks came with over two thousand times that. How much RAM do you have? How much do you value your free RAM? And how much do you value having properly automated backups?
