3rd Year Workshop

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# 3rd Year Workshop
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## Backing up your work and data
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### Ian McCarthy, Emory University
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### Economics PhD Professionalism Workshop
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# Backing up

How do you back up your work? Lots of ways:

1. External hard drives

2. Cloud services

3. Automatic back up services

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# External hard drives

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Pros:
- Affordable and fully in your control
- Data remain private
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Cons:
- Only backed up at certain intervals
- Can be slow
- Data are all in the same physical place
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Crashes will inevitably happen between backups

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# Cloud services

Lots of cloud services like DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive

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Pros:
- Works really well and painlessly
- Easy to share when needed
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Cons:
- Can get expensive over time
- Can't backup private or restricted data
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# Offsite hard drives

Just build your own network!

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Pros:
- Data stays with you
- Backup in real-time
- Redundancies built-in to network configuration
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Cons:
- Expensive to buy
- Harder to setup
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# My backup system

- Synology 4-bay NAS DiskStation 
- "Synology Drive" to sync files across locations
- Synology Hybrid RAID (because I'm not a network engineer)
- Sync with Google Drive for some individual files or folders (bibtex library)

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# My attempted system

- Cloud-based system with AWS
- PostgreSQL on attached cloud drive
- Elastic IP 
- Access from anywhere on almost any device