That's a brave assumption (and as a hint, no they don't - they have some sort of version control, but its very limited).
Poll: How do you backup your backups? (Poll please!)
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That's a brave assumption (and as a hint, no they don't - they have some sort of version control, but its very limited).
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This.
I know I should really get my old photos backed up, but apart from that (which would be a shame but not life ending), there's nothing that I really NEED to backup.
I use a password manager and emails for any backup codes and have crypto wallet codes stored somewhere secure that only I know about away from my main abode.
Photos primarily. It used to be music too until I switched to streaming.
I've also got a a few important docs around finances, mortgages, house plans, etc that would be a faff if I lost them. I've got some random apps/projects that are really old that aren't in version control either. None of these would break my world if I lost them (although it would be a pita), but losing photos would be awful.
I also need to backup my emails (but I don't). Like you say, there's an awful lot of useful stuff in my emails, so I'd be pretty screwed if I lost those.
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My Skyrim save files. 2000+ hours in that game and I ain't waiting for something to corrupt them. I back them up over Steam [automatically], and then manually on Google Drive and Mega about once a month.
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This is similar to me.
Cloud backup.
Local backup.
Redundancy on NAS (I know I know it's not a backup but it adds another layer of protection).
For me it's old pictures and videos (a lot of them are scans that can't be restored) personal work files, home admin, receipts and records of information. Basically 20 year's worth of life and work stuff that whilst I don't use regularly I'd be devastated if it was lost.
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Don’t even backup my PC let alone backup the backup.
Just nothing on there that would bother me if I lost it.
Just nothing on there that would bother me if I lost it.
My main 8TB storage HD is spilt into three sections and is backed-up across three 4TB backup portable hard drives (effectively Old games/patches/mods etc, Media, General).
My main dislike of "the cloud" is the requirement for an internet connection and I've lived in so many places where 56k modems felt "new tech" so even though it's an old prejudice to dislike "web storage" I still can't get comfortable with it.
My main dislike of "the cloud" is the requirement for an internet connection and I've lived in so many places where 56k modems felt "new tech" so even though it's an old prejudice to dislike "web storage" I still can't get comfortable with it.
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All my movies and TV shows are stored on my 2 bay Synology NAS and I’ll do a yearly backup of that to an external drive as while I’d really hate to lose it, it’s not really important data and while it’s not impossible I doubt both drives will die the same day.
For my PC as not much changes month to month I’ll do a monthly clone from my 2TB SN850 to a 2TB 980 Pro, so at least if my drive dies or something goes badly wrong I can just pop the other drive in and be back up and running in under 5mins.
For important data like photos they are backed up to google photos and my local music is on my iPhone so easy to retrieve if I have to, don’t really have many important documents so if they get lost it’s not really a big deal.
For my PC as not much changes month to month I’ll do a monthly clone from my 2TB SN850 to a 2TB 980 Pro, so at least if my drive dies or something goes badly wrong I can just pop the other drive in and be back up and running in under 5mins.
For important data like photos they are backed up to google photos and my local music is on my iPhone so easy to retrieve if I have to, don’t really have many important documents so if they get lost it’s not really a big deal.
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Everything is on a Synology NAS, which backs up to Synology Cloud and Amazon Glacier.
Sometimes also make a local backup to disk.
I user OneDrive but don’t really consider this a backup as such. It syncs, it doesn’t backup.
OK if it’s just a drive failure, but not for accidental deletion, or malware activity.
I also wouldn’t consider anything in emails safe unless those are backed up as well.
Sometimes also make a local backup to disk.
I user OneDrive but don’t really consider this a backup as such. It syncs, it doesn’t backup.
OK if it’s just a drive failure, but not for accidental deletion, or malware activity.
I also wouldn’t consider anything in emails safe unless those are backed up as well.
Whats a backup?... Nah, but seriously? I dont actively backup. Things like photos etc are backed up to could automatically on dropbox. Some files that I specifically want to ensure are safe are backed up to cloud or external harddrive, but generally I dont bother.
I dont tend to have anything worth backing up, if a drive were to die, I'd just fresh install on a new drive. A few hours of minor inconvenience at most as I fresh install every 6 months anyway, probably not necessary these days but old habits die hard.
I dont tend to have anything worth backing up, if a drive were to die, I'd just fresh install on a new drive. A few hours of minor inconvenience at most as I fresh install every 6 months anyway, probably not necessary these days but old habits die hard.
As I am no longer mission critical (retired), all my home stuff gets backed up to two SSD's. Alternate weeks.for each drive. Worst case I lose a couple of weeks of docs, mainly doodling poetry or stories. Recent house buying necessitated a brief shortening of this interval.
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Backup to internal HDD and external HDD that can just be picked up in an instant
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Backup to to separate server with multiple drives for redundancy, this also sends certain files to cloud storage, periodically take a snapshot of backups onto a removable device which is taken to a secondary location. All this and I'm sure I'll still lose something important! 
Had a look at cloud backup solutions for my NAS out of curiosity and IDrive looked pretty decent especially for the price and the capacity I needed plus it has a Synology app. Uploading just over 8TB of data should be fun at 55Mbps, 14 days of 24/7 uploading it seems it's going to take. Virgins going to love me this month 
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NAS for immediate family photos, videos and documents.
NAS makes incremental backups of photos (original size and adjusted original size), videos, and only the most essential (already encrypted) document files that aren't used much or changed much to a connected USB HDD.
Smaller sized photos of the originals are put together and encrypted on the NAS, before being uploaded to the Cloud as a backup. (This might change to oroginal size ones and incremental backup if I can find anything to fit the entire photo folder, have the connection, just not the Cloud space)
Documents that change a lot are instead backed up onto a USB Flash drive.
The system drives I have are mostly bare. Very little non OS or programs and temporary files exist on those. Photoshop requests, or Videos are worked on the Ramdrive, so no trace of anything remains. Making any restorations of the computer a lot more simple if something goes wrong. And leaving just enough spots and plaes to recover something if something happens to anything, anywhere. Will need to be super unlucky to lose it all at the same time. Although I'm aware that can definitely happen.
NAS makes incremental backups of photos (original size and adjusted original size), videos, and only the most essential (already encrypted) document files that aren't used much or changed much to a connected USB HDD.
Smaller sized photos of the originals are put together and encrypted on the NAS, before being uploaded to the Cloud as a backup. (This might change to oroginal size ones and incremental backup if I can find anything to fit the entire photo folder, have the connection, just not the Cloud space)
Documents that change a lot are instead backed up onto a USB Flash drive.
The system drives I have are mostly bare. Very little non OS or programs and temporary files exist on those. Photoshop requests, or Videos are worked on the Ramdrive, so no trace of anything remains. Making any restorations of the computer a lot more simple if something goes wrong. And leaving just enough spots and plaes to recover something if something happens to anything, anywhere. Will need to be super unlucky to lose it all at the same time. Although I'm aware that can definitely happen.
Weekly full and daily incremental Macrium Reflect backups to a pair of USB3 HDDs that are rotated every week with one stored offsite, due to going offsite these use 256bit encryption. All photos also in OneDrive, along with a few key documents that are are encrypted.
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