Episode 4 - "Is that cumulonimbus cloud storage?" Data Backups

• Technicians at the KGRK weather radar encountered a rattlesnake during an upgrade this week. The official NWS statement says “DUE TO COMPLICATIONS INVOLVING A RATTLESNAKE DURING TODAYS UPGRADE…THE KGRK RADAR WILL REAMIN DOWN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND POSSIBLY INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.”

Why should you backup?

• Not lose your data


• Not waste money, effort


• Legal obligation (taxes, grant data policy, etc)

What makes a good backup?

• Local and offsite


• Multiple backups


• Harward and software independence


• Copies of raw and processed data (if possible)


• Archivable formats


• Incremental snapshots and clones

It’s not okay to “backup” versions of files like this!

Backup Solutions

• Backblaze (cloud, $50/yr) - This is what John uses for one of his backups


• Carbonite (cloud, $varies) - Not carbon copy cloner as said in the show


• Time Machine for Mac - Another backup method John uses


• Super Duper (Mirroring)


• Carbon Copy Cloner (bootable backups)

Fun Paper Friday

• The Earth’s core is complex with possible tectonics happening at the inner core interface.


• Also, the inner core has been divided into two regions with the names: outer-inner core and inner-inner core.


• Geophysics: Tectonics in the Earth’s core (Olson, 2009)


• Equatorial anisotropy in the inner part of Earth’s inner core from autocorrelation of earthquake coda (Wang et al)

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John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin