Hoe een backup doen op Usenet:
https://arstechnica.com/i...senet-yes-usenet-instead/
Wel belangrijk om volgende in acht te nemen:
NetworkingGuru
OK, I’m the actual author for this piece, and I feel like some light needs to be shed on certain aspects of this for people.
First, regarding the data quantities backed up in this manner – they are very small. This doesn’t make sense for large quantities of systems, nor for systems with large data needs. Part of the reason for this is that anything you backup, you need to test restore, and a test restore when backing up in this manner is a pain. You have to download all of the parts, join them back together, decrypt them, unzip them, and at least spot check the data. It’s no fun. Secondarily, about the only news servers that retain binaries to any degree any more are those who are paid to do so. So the whole world isn’t really storing your data for free, only those who are paid to do it. And they only retain it for a limited period (120 days or less, typically).
On the systems I’ve used it on, the total backup size is typically ~40 MB. To put that into perspective with Usenet, the second biggest newsgroup, as far as bytes posted, is alt.binaries.dvd (the top is alt.binaries.misc). The typical DVD upload size is over 4GB. So 100 backups equal 1 DVD, roughly.
Regarding use cases, I’ve really only found a use for this in two cases. The first was back when there really were no good cloud backup solutions for Linux. Then, I used to back up my laptop a few times a year in this way. However, I then realized I could use Grive to do the same thing to my Google drive, and I switched to that, as it was easier (my script supports both models for this reason). Finally, I found Crashplan, and switched to that.
The second use case was when I had a bunch of test VM’s for a project I was working on. They had almost no data, other than their config, and I wanted to back that up. Again, the data quantities were very small, and you only need a single backup every three months or so.
To be clear, no one’s advocating dropping your existing cloud backups. This is just an interesting side path in cases where it makes some sense.
Maar het lijkt mij een uitermate slecht idee