You do back up your data don't you user?
Tell me how. I personally keep all my files encrypted in a 300gb Microsoft OneDrive and clone the folder nightly.
Everything else is replaceable except music collection which is on Google Music and just copied to an external drive once in awhile.
I use the sbackup utility (different from simple-backup) and I like it. I don't think it's being developed anymore and it's imperfect, but it gets the job done.
All my data is on a Raid 5. In XOR I trust.
Anything i want to keep goes to external drive(s).
I don't
Nope. I don't have anything important. Just textbooks and anime.
RAID (redundency), manually twice for cold storage monthly (alternating), then to the cloud (AWS)
Bacula. Fastcopy. Syncthing.
Hoping to run cloud storage at some point, but havent found anything great for on-off operation yet.
Synology Diskstation. It's easy, reliable, and was free due to my work.
Me on the left.
Google Drive
I don't have much data that I couldn't get back in the event of data loss.
Only ~500MB.
I just don't care, I guess.
Have daily off site backup, weekly and monthly on site backups. So 4 copies of my data in total. I didn't fall for the raid meme.
What stuff are you guys backing up? I've never seen the need to do more than duplicate stuff between my computer and phone.
I image them with the windows built in tool, once every 3 months or so.
Media and documents. Never bring work home with you.
I have 800GB of raw CR2 image files, and thousands of scientific pdfs.
Honestly there's so much garbage mixed in with that but it's hard to let go of so many things. I have a lot of trouble letting go of savegame files or old screenshots. I'm super nostalgic of my 2000 era desktop screenshots for instance.
How do you automate that process ? The cloning
Robocopy. I don't see the sense in using complex archival systems that are prone to corrupting themselves.
Robocopy makes straight clones of the files and is super heavily scriptable.
Use an external HDD to backup my game every so often. If I lost everything I would literally kill myself.
Data hoarder? I can be a bit like that but nowhere near your level. I had a folder full of stuff a while ago and I just cut out everything I had to keep like important docs and photos then deleted what was left (music, ebooks, information, pictures, etcetera) without consideration for any of it. Went from 16GB to 500MB and it felt quite liberating.
That sounds amazing. I heard about a Japanese philosophy book about literally giving away all possessions except those you use every day.
I guess I figured most people were Data hoarders? Especially on Sup Forums where the mental health of the users is all over the place... and where people have porn collections hosted on data arrays...
I might consider doing it user. Thanks.
Back up your data, autist. RAID isn't a backup utility.
You're welcome. Yes I would imagine there are a greater than usual percentage of data hoarders here and I think a lot of people do hoard data in general.
If you do it (and you should) take a critical unsentimental look at it all. If you really consider the value of it to you if like me you'll find most of it is useless and thus not worth keeping. Oh and you may feel a bit of regret after deleting it but that will pass quickly.
This.
>deleting data
Rookie mistake
I just manually backup everything on an external drive
>create encrypted file
>2gb
>divided the encrypted file with WinRAR
>install your favorite botnet-cloud (mine is dropbox)
>upload divided file.part1.rar, one per one (comfy as fuck) or don't
>upload all file(s)
>everytime you need to backup, you just need to decrypt in the file and add more stuff
>once you got the limit, share the link with yourself and repeat
>botnet btfo
>DMCA btfo
>pay service btfo
>create gibberish file
>name it encrypted_x
>distribute among neets and autists
>watch them scramble to decrypt it
Backup between machines using Unison
Backup thesis data on USB drive, als using Unison
Its pretty fast really
Time Machine onto my NAS server, which also backs up to a second drive in the same server
What backups can these store?
well user, key files are a thing (i guess)
brute force is a casual meme