data backup setup
#13721

hdd shat itself, my backup consists of:

  • external drive (last updated 1+ year ago)
  • usb sticks (random shit from multiple years ago)
  • 20 GB of cloud storage (85% full)
  • ..that's it

how about you maids

https://saikuru.net/sig
#13722
a 6tb hdd that gathers dust most of the time because i'n too lazy to actually make backups regularly
https://wart.host/20190201_qaG.png
#13723
mine's very sloppy tbh

anything that i consider Very Important i keep on iCloud, both as something of a backup and so i can access it on pretty much all my devices, and similarly i keep the rest of my files on a server machine (effectively a NAS i guess?) but that also doesn't have any data replication

i should probably get some shit going with raspberry pis and very big hdds at some point both to get everything on one drive and so i can implement some form of replication with separate devices, but i'm both too lazy and poor and probably stupid to do this

we continue to Live on the Edge
https://sig.flash.moe/signature.png
#13724
my backup system is bothering flash or geb to hold onto things i would otherwise forget about or lose
//i.fii.moe/EEtDbYEICrUbLOFjkwKVQ7OUJWJR-ejl
#13725
you guys have backups?

most my data (by weight) is stored on a literal zombie external hdd, some has Copies on the other two drives tho
not very well-designed or consistent but it's hard to have sensible backups with my files being a general mess (at least without an order of magnitude more storage so i could just lazily image shit)
#13728
Although I have an 8tb drive, that is just for storing things, not making backups of other data I have on my computer, because one drive could easily fail. I was told that it isn't secure enough to make backups on a home server. However, I do not trust online subscription-based / "cloud" backup services. Therefore, whatever is destroyed is destroyed and that is apparently the best solution.
#13729
" I was told that it isn't secure enough to make backups on a home server. However, I do not trust online subscription-based / "cloud" backup services."

there's also the option of the secondary backup machine at another location, parents or a friend or something
https://sig.flash.moe/signature.png
#13730
"there's also the option of the secondary backup machine at another location, parents or a friend or something "

True, but it seems like the criticisms that I was told about running it myself (that it is more likely for a catastrophic failure to result in losing the data permanently, for example) to also apply in those cases. Unless they are running a massive backup service which would be kind of funny.