Those that know me, know that I‘m a little paranoid about backup automation around the house (because I‘m lazy, and that if it wasn‘t automated, it wouldn‘t get done).
I‘m also a little paranoid about offsite backups, so therefore I have a VPN between my house and my parents‘ house, and send my nightly backups (via rsync) to their place as well.
Normally, when I check my e-mail in the morning, I see a little report about what got backed up. I didn‘t notice that it was missing this morning, and instead it arrived at 3:00 in the afternoon.
That seemed a little odd, so I went and looked at my cricket instance, and low-and-behold, the outbound rsync had the 768Kbps side of my DSL connection pegged since 02:00 AM. A little “du”ing around on my backup server, and I found out that a backup had taken place in the middle of a torrent of FC6. That wouldn‘t have been a problem, except that BT stores incomplete files in your Windows profile directory. (which is what I backup, I don't bother trying to do "bare metal" restore of my windows boxes). Why, oh why couldn't they store incomplete files in “Local Settings\Temp” like a well-behaved application? Where‘s their bugs database!
