Backing Up

I copy files to an external HDD, then burn the more important files to optical media in case my external drive fails at some point.

>cloud

I wouldn't trust any third parties with my data.

I use a cloud backup service for my media. I have a RAID1 array in my PC for doubling up files. Any sensitive fies get backed up to a couple flash drives and are stored away.

>>57193958
CD's

>>57194200
>storing 10TB of data on CDs

>>57193958
I have a RAID array I back up to, which I then back up to an external drive weekly.

>>57193958
>physical disks are better than cloud services backed by billion dollar companies
kek

Been thinking about physical media for long term storage, read a bit about M-Discs and even tape storage but I have no experience with either one.

I do need some good storage for all that porn, chinese cartoons and all the pics waifu.

>>57194666
They're certainly more private.

personal sftp server

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>>57194457
Almost no one has 10tb of truly important data lets be honest.
I SAID ALMOST NO ONE.

>>57194761
>hurr durr what is encryption

>>57194958
>encrypting terabytes of data to upload to the cloud

>>57194795
I have at least 10TB of anime.

>>57195003
>encrypting terabytes of data to upload to the cloud
What's the problem?

>>57193958
Encrypted backup on my 3TB Time Capsule by Apple.

>>57193958
>cloud
Cloud is slow, dependent on your Internet speed and wastes bandwidth unnecessarily. It's a pretty inconvenient and expensive way to back up your data unless you have less than a hundred GB of data. You also have to trust the 3rd party with your data, so if their hardware fails or they invade your privacy it's all over. Overall it's only useful for backing up books, some images, music and text files, and encrypted personal files (but you may be asked to decrypt them if the encryption doesn't have a backdoor already).

M-Disc Blu-rays are probably the best choice, although more expensive than HDDs per GB. They're reliable, durable and easy to use. You can also use it anywhere without Internet or any other hardware since optical disc readers are cheap and common. They're great for storing the most important data, software and other stuff. If you want to store easily re-retrievable and not-so-important data (movies, porn, music, certain software, etc) HDDs or flash drives should do the job. They'll usually last over 5 years and are very cheap.

The best way to make a back up is to use 3 or 4 separate, identical backups. For example,
1. M-Discs, used for permanent data storage. Storing something static, that cannot change and you wish to keep it permanently. DVD M-Discs for movies, music, software, operating systems, etc, and Blu-ray ones for anything larger or in a mass.
2. HDD, used for storing masses of data in a single media. Boot it at least once a month to check for possible errors. During that time you can also update your current backup.
3. Second HDD, used as a current backup which you're actively editing and accessing. If something goes wrong you still have your first HDD. Also store changes on a flash drive.
4. Flash drive or mSD, used to store only the changes made on your second HDD. In case the 2nd HDD fails you can combine the primary HDD with your flash drive to get back all your data.

It all comes down to how organised you are.

>>57195003
>encrypting terabytes of data to upload to the cloud

What's wrong with that? I got ~20TB uploaded to my Amazon Cloud Drive. Only costs $60 a year too.

RAID 1 on a NAS (2TB) + Not really important files on a cloud (4TB, OneDrive via Microsoft Office Subscription)

>inb4 "lol microsoft enjoy paying to give data"

Is a Athlon 5350 Kabini 2.05GHz with 2GB RAM good enough for a NAS?

>>57193958
I use my 2 tb hard drive to back my desktop up weekly but also have a 1 tb portable hard drive with pgp encryption (key is kept on a flash drive in a separate area) that I back my data up on once a month.

>>57193958
2,5 TB of unique data and growing with about 2-400GB/year here.

I follow a variation of the 3-2-1 backup rule, which is at least 3 total copies of your data, 2 of which are local but on different mediums, and at least 1 copy offsite.

I backup my data to 2 different external HDDs, one which sits on my shelf, and one which I keep in a different city. In adittion to this, I store one encrypted copy in the cloud.

Complimentary to this I do the following:

I winrar all my data with rar5. I use parity records of 50%, and split all my archives into chunks. That way, if I have a partial data loss, I can pull pieces from many sources and rebuild my data. There is also a build in error check into the file format, so any bit rot will be detected and can be fixed with the recovery record. On the cloud version i enable encryption as well.

I also use ECC ram in my machine as well as having it connected with an UPS.

In the future, I plan on starting to use ZFS. I also plan on calculating checksums for all of my files, so I can detect any bit rot over time.

>>57193958
the only things I have worth backing up are on github

>>57193958
>making backups

>>57193999
Why not just use multiple drives and mirror?

>>57195330
Ur teh gay.

>>57193958
i dont, i just cry when i have to start my life over every time my os drive dies

>>57195488
When you stop being a worthless NEET and get an actual job then you will see that you have to back shit up.

>>57193958
The WD My Passport has the interface integrated into the drive. You can't remove the drive and connect it via sata like a normal drive. If the interface breaks, you can't access the drive at all.

>>57195526
So flipping burgers at Mickey D's requires one to make backups?

>>57193958
WD passport, 2TB, manually back up everything once a month because everything that's actually important was made using Google Drive

>>57193958
>key is kept on a flash drive in a separate area

The feds will search your whole place and take all media.

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rsync

>>57193958
Backing up is a method of multiplying copies of your data and increasing your exposure. Anyone that tells you you need multiple copies of the same data on multiple formats in physically separate places is giving you advice about how to compromise your data.

I have a 500GB external HDD full of TV shows, and a 320GB old ass laptop HDD full of movies and porn
I don't have a real reason to back up shit but I constantly found myself regretting deleting stuff so I just started saving everything

I reinstall my OS about twice a year by habit, and I've learned to save all my docs on Google Drive and all my pictures to Photos. My games are all saved on an external, so when I reinstall all I have to do is reinstall my programs, which I have a flash drive for filled with installers.

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>>57194178

>>57193958
For now, I just have an external drive I format and copy my files to once per week or so. While the backup is in progress, I don't have a backup. I might get a RAID array or something later on.

>>57193958
rsync, backed to 2 rotating disks stored in a fireproof safe.

>why is it superior to other methods of backing up like cloud backups
do you really need to ask?

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>>57193958
Everything i download is tested and then transfered to one of my many backup HDDs for security so i dont need to do backups at all, if i want to test a new OS, build, fuck around with winblows or if i get a virus i just do a full wipe and reinstall without losing any of my data, i keep absolutely nothing on my main PC but a few wallpapers, essential programs and some games from my steam account and GOG, i dont log any of my accounts on it either except for the steam one of course, its more or less exclusively for vidya (and if my parents want to use it for something, sis can fuck right off though), the laptop however has all of my autism on it and i keep all my reaction images on a 32 GB usb drive, my phone also has its own backup HDD and a fairly large mSD that i backup every 2 weeks.

Does anyone have any experience with home LTO solutions? I have a spare pc that I was thinking of putting an LTO4 drive in but I have no idea what I'm doing. What should I know before buying an LTO drive/SAS card and what software should I be using with it?

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>>57196027
There is no reason to.

>No it's not cheaper
>No it's not more durable

>>57196099
>No it's not cheaper
Why not? Assuming you can get a good deal on a drive it seems like it's very cheap.

>>57194666
Show me a TOS of any cloud provider free or paid that explicitly says they guarantee the integrity of your data.

>>57195167
how the fuck does pricing work on amazon cloud? the page I saw lists "computer hours" I have a hard time understanding that. How does one sign up and how does it work?

>>57195841
rsync is not a backup

>>57194795
>10tb of truly important data
>>57195003
>I have at least 10TB of anime.

>/g/ - Technology

>>57196490
Are you looking at EC2 or S3?

>>57196742
Not that anon but people do worry about their on-hand copies of media becoming the only convenient/free sources of that media, if it is even still available anymore.

Still these people should just run something like RAID 1 or z and then store some other physical copy in a decent safe or two just in case of a house fire, updating/mirroring each with frequency relative to the convenience of the backups.

It's really not hard. Hell you've even got those rugged as shit hard drives available.

You can have excessive redundancy for basic media storage for personal use without ever leaving your house or using an off-site service.

People handling the data for legal businesses already know more than most of /g/ and those running illegal ones aren't going to be this transparent to begin with.

inb4 >implying you're not replying to a shitpost

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DAS RAID1 2TB for work files.

>>57196742
>Not that anon but people do worry about their on-hand copies of media becoming the only convenient/free sources of that media, if it is even still available anymore.

I'm just like that, I'm sort of an amateur archivist. I don't have a RAID or anything though, and I fear for my data's safety.

>>57196787
I don't understand where to look, their pages seem directed at corporate types. Suppose all i want is a storage drive.

Do I have to rent a server to this?

So I would be renting a "server" with unlimited storage and not "storage" itself, right?

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>>57193958
I have a 1TB SSD in my desktop and a 500GB inside for backups. I also have a 256GB SSD in my laptop and then 4x 64BG flash drives plugged into the dock.

>>57195003
>I have at least 10TB of anime.
Anime is even easy to compress. Seek help.

>>57197014
>1TB SSD
Money to burn I see.

>>57196466
Show me a TOS of any hard drive manufacturer that explicitly says they guarantee the integrity of your data.

>>57197146
>compare apples with oranges

Most important stuff (my music's final mixes in wav, school stuff) on mega and google drive.

Music project files and school stuff backed up every two weeks across three drives.

>>57197146
Even if they guarantee it, what the fuck can they actually do if the drive is destroyed? Nothing.

Decent MTBF is only a prerequisite for effective redundancy.

Expensive services can handle geo-redundancy and such for you, or you can do it yourself, but they're not exactly running millions of WD greens.

>>57197103
>Anime is even easy to compress. Seek help.
It is already compressed.

>>57197184
That's the thing. So let's say you can spend let's say $100 a year to store your irreplaceable pictures and dcuments on Dropbox/Onedrive type service. Or you can buy two hard drives for $100, and store your data in those two drives, and have them in two separate locations.

Which one protects you the best?

>>57197451
There's also the fact that your data is then also limited by your internet connection, if you can even get one.

>>57197466
Yeah ok, let's add that to the mix of "problems" to cloud services...

For the costs and benefits between both types of storage, my personal choice would be offline storage, which then the management becomes a matter of risks (flood, fire, theft and failure of the device itself) plus you have to manage to have a computer on the side as a backup if you intend this to be long term archival storage solution just to connect to the drive in case the standards change.

With cloud services the benefits are huge, you don't have to worry about any of that someone else does the worrying. Then your only worry becomes, can you trust that your service provider can be trusted. Because if not, you're fucked.

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>>57195161
>Boot it at least once a month to check for possible errors. During that time you can also update your current backup.

>Read this, decide to boot up my old 320GB HDD full of games
>Windows says "you need to format this drive to use it for the first time"

FUUUUUUUUCK

>>57197561
Are you running Windows10? Boot up a live distro, and check your drive again.

>>57196519
>cold backups are not a backup

ok m8y

>>57197573
Nah, 7. I'm running EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and all the stuff is in there. I think i might be able to recover it.

>>57197513
"Cloud" stuff is alright for long-term storage, where you'd be willing to go out of your way to spend a while at a location with a solid/fast/stable connection to download it all again.

This isn't dissimilar in convenience to having a drive in something like a safety deposit box.

If you aren't dealing with caps and have something like 100+ up, I suppose it's fine, but shit changes and people lose jobs.

It really depends upon how careful/organised you are.

Even if using an online storage method, I would want some form of redundancy involved for whatever was being used when it came to retrieving backups.

>>57193958
I have all my data duplicated to my local NAS, which is a RAID array.

I have important stuff also up on Google Drive, sensitive stuff is encrypted. $2/mo for 100GB. Photos, documents, personal projects and the hour or two of video that I've recorded are safe there.
That way it's available in the event of some sort of local catastrophe. I don't really care if my movies/music/games (which are the bulk of my data) get wiped out, as those can be easily replaced.

>>57197607
I don't have data that I care about exception of pictures, I have a small flood of pictures, not much we're talking 70GB, small potatoes.

But even such a small amount, has become paralyzing, I don't want to lose my family pictures anon. I have checked the "normie" options, dropbox is expensive af. Onedrive is cheaper, but tinhat aside, why the fuck should I let NSA go through every picture of me and my family on our outings or holidays? Doesn't feel right. I have several HDs with the same copies of the pics, but fear of failure is always there. I would love a online solution, even if I encrypt the files, say with 7zip password, which is probably comprimised anyway, I can't trust that I'll log into the account one day and they're gone, or one month my account gets low and the day they charge the money isn't there.

I don't know what the fuck to do other than to have multiple drives.

>>57197721
Google drive.

It's like $2/month for 100GB.
Encrypt them if you're worried about privacy.

>>57197721
Oh so you were asking, rather than informing the other anon through rhetorical questions?

It's not really all that expensive to get a few 128GB things.

I would follow these: >>57195161
>>57195330

>>57194200
>>57194457
8 years ago or some shit I had to back up the most important of my shit on DVDs because I had that shitty malware that spreads through USB contact. Now whenever I see a public USB at a store or something I can't stop thinking how much of a hooker AIDS ridden glory hole it is, if it isn't sandboxed.

>>57193958
posting some files on cloud desu can get u to jail :^)

>>57193958
>If you back up to the cloud you probably shouldn't be on /g/.

If you deposit to the banks, you probably shouldn't be on life.

>>57194457
>he doesn't have 10TB of floppy disks as his main hard drive

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I was always paranoid about data loss (from work or personal projects), so I spent weeks researching and this is the best (and economic) solution I have come up so far.

>960Gb main OS SSD, encrypted with Diskcryptor, stores everything I need daily
>4Tb Internal 5400 RPM, mirrors everything on 960Gb plus all the files that don't need to be on the SSD
>5Tb external that gets updated weekly with above

All files are stored in Veracrypt containers depending on their category.

All external store is stored in a fireproof container.

For extremely critical information, I use two 128Gb USB 3.0 drives. Don't cheap out on these, they need to be able to handle transferring the full 111Gb every week. Stored in fireproof container.

It's a good idea to have dead drops for long-time storage away from your house. I use micro-SD cards (64-128Gb). Put critical information in Veracrypt containers, store them at a friend's or relative's house.

For extra safety I used my old USB 2.0 drives I still had laying around and put them in the basement. They're last resort since updating is slow AF, even over night.

It's kind of sentimental.
It's your entire life stored in a small piece of aluminum.

Rly makes u think.

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I was using the same 500GB Passport since 2008 with no issues, then grabbed a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus that was essentially $20 after selling the Passport. I keep the most important shit (i.e. shit as old as my Prodigy internet days) in encrypted containers on Mega

>>57197679
>which is a RAID array
RAID is not a backup fag

Got a lot of old HDD's from my stepfather and put them into "dummy towers" that are nothing more than barebones desktops with at 200GB-1TB of HDD's stuffed into them.Got the parts from my stepfather when he passed,he had a whole shitton of PC parts.I only use maybe one dummy PC, since I really don't have a lot of data.

>>57198101
Serious question.

What makes you trust the SD cards and flash drives? Is it just a matter of faith/redundancy that one or all of them will be active when you need them?

>>57198244
Replicating your data onto a RAID array is a backup, nigger.

>>57198244
did you fail in high school as much as you did in 5th grade reading comprehension?

Stupid question here: For you HDDfags, do you just get an internal WD / Hitachi hdd, open your tower up and plug it in via sata connection or use a sata-to-usb connector weekly and transfer data that way, or do you buy actual external hard drive (which usually cost more sheckles) and use usb3.0? I was under the impression the point of backups is to not have them mounted inside your tower permanently.

>>57198380
I just purchased a 4TB external, it cost $150. I considered it an OK deal... I simply refuse to keep data on my PC, I been through too much shit using computers to know not to trust storage of files on a computer that I use daily, if its important, it gets backed up. If it is really important, it gets backed up from the back up at least once.

>>57198380
A few years back I'd harvest an external HDD with USB 3.0 and connect like that. It was useful to have a portable interaction for laptops and keep the HDD separate.

Nowadays I use a proper cage like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00126U0VA/ in a 5.25" slot.

Is 2GB of RAM enough for a NAS?

>>57198442
Depends on the OS and what else you're running on it.

1GB can be fine if it's doing literally nothing but storing files.

>>57198446
Probably backups.

>>57193958
i use cloud because im not a criminal or political insurgent

>>57198468
>Depends on the OS
Also, yeah probably nas4free

>>57193958
>What does /g/ use to back up their data and why is it superior to other methods of backing up like cloud backups?
First off. RAID 1 on all drives, even SSDs.
Then an internal drive for backup, and external backup staging.
Backup from the internal backup to the external backup.
The reason is that the internal backup completes more quickly than the external backup, and as external drives are slightly less reliable or prone to issue (accidentally wiggling the USB plug for example) this helps assure that the backup causes the least amount of interruption to system use.

Extra critical files can get dumped to optical media periodically for backup and archive purposes, but that is just a 4th tier backup.

Also, all media is encrypted.

>>57193958
I just run my drives in a RAID5. Animu and my 4chan image collection don't need anything better.

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>>57198101

>>57198516
What sort of hit do read/write speeds and IOPS take when you're using file or full drive encryption? I wouldn't mind for the backups, just the main drive/s.

>>57198634
Depends on the software you use.

Modern CPUs have AES-NI which negates pretty much any overhead from dmcrypt/bitlocker @ SATA3 speeds. NVMe speeds will hit a bit of a bottleneck around 1G/s on weak CPUs.

>>57193958

HDD, lasts longer than solid state for private data, there's free GBs of cloud storage (only certain stuff), and as a third backup keep some USBs of some private stuff. If you don't mind the government being deep in your ass, then there's no issue with backing everything up in the cloud.
>backing up
>back that ass up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2txMU50CI

rsync although remote backups in addition to local are the right thing to do for data which can't be replaced.

>>57193958
I change my mind from my post here >>57198657

Just about all the various methods of storing data should be used, obviously for different reasons and purposes. That includes, HDD and SSD, both external and internal, cds/dvds, USBs, cloud, etc, all the modern methods should really be used.

>>57198634
>What sort of hit do read/write speeds and IOPS take when you're using file or full drive encryption? I wouldn't mind for the backups, just the main drive/s.

I use VeraCrypt and it says I do over 3GB/s with AES-256 using acceleration. I think AES-256+TwoFish was around 900MB/s. I use AES-256 (I figure its more likely they'll get my password some other way than brute force it or find a weakness in AES). My system (dual 2699v4) has AES-NI instruction set acceleration.

>>57198337
Not that guy, but he's right. RAID isn't a backup, not only is it susceptible to failure that can kill your entire system (i.e. power surge fries everything) most of not all RAID systems are also susceptible to more subtle issues like not being able to recover from a drive in the array corrupting data but not outright failing. For instance if in a RAID5 array data doesn't match parity information you can't actually know if one of the data drives is corrupted or if the parity drive is corrupted.

Backup even as simple as an external HDD can obviously survive things that completely destroy the computer hosting the RAID, because you can keep them offline and in a different place.

>>57198725
you both failed reading comprehension, huh?

>>57193958
Single external hard drive. I have only 1TB of "active" data or shit that I actually care about, mainly music and other shit. The rest goes to external hard drives without backups for archival purposes, mainly anime and movies.

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store everything on the cloud, it's 100% safe

>>57198787
How are they levitating that hammer?

>>57198083
This. What a pleb.

>>57198971
slav magic

>>57198666
rsync is not a backup

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>>57198101
screen capped your post for future reference anon.

>>57198480
I use cloud because im a criminal and political insurgent.

throws em off

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>>57197598
here, i recovered all my files!

>>57193958
I use git for all of my projects, both private and personal. so I run a privately hosted git server for all of those. I also regularly back up my most important projects on usb.

Been thinking about storing all the family videos on youtube as private.

>>57193958
>2TB anime/movies/whatever/music/important shit
>1TB anime/movies/whatever/music/important shit
>320GB drive same as above
>320GB for Wii U
>320GB Music drive from 7 years ago
>500GB in PS3
>500GB HDD for laptop OS/random anime/games (I got no SDD still)
>750GB drive that shows warning in CrystalDiskInfo but I still use it to boot PS2 games to my FMCB PS2, I guess it acts as another backup for my stuff until it dies.

Most of these are external hdd.

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>>57195572
Mind sharing that .bashrc PS1?

My important stuff, by which I mean genuinely important, is backed up on about 10 different devices by this point. Only comes up to about 500MB since it's just some documents and mostly family pictures.

I have about 2.5TB of junk though; game ISOs, music, movies, series, and other things that I'm not going to break my heart over losing. I'm not worried that I wont be able to re-download or even buy a thing that had a wide commercial release, but I'll never be able to replace these pictures.

>>57199831
You really can't manage some brackets and colors on your own?

>>57195575
>don't back up your data goyim!
t. NSA

>>57198125
I have the same. 1tb blue colored seagate which I back up with every other month. Nothing important really but if my laptop does die, which I fear it might given it's over 4 years old at this point, there are some files which are essential to me.

>>57193958
Arvid.

>>57193958
just cloning my main harddrive with clonezilla on another harddrive.
just that. no more.

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Move aside peasants. God tier backup solution coming through

two external 1TB HDDs

>>57199727
i just have 60 GB HDD (on my main netbook) and 4 TB HDD (on my NAS)
am i poor ?

>>57200685
>zip drive
oh, memories...

>>57200685
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v04nBp5u_Zg&list=TLNE24_YH2ofw

>>57193958
external hard drive

>>57193958
Datto. Full stop.

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>>57193958
Code goes on Gitlab, personal photos and work/projects folders on home server, passwords and gf nudes in VeraCrypt containers backed up in several locations including GDrive and Dropbox.

>>57196855
Raid != Backup

>>57196871
You want to use S3. You only pay for storage you use and data transfer.

>>57193958
Zip drive

A usb stick.
I don't really hoard information.

>>57197014
Why would your backup drive be half the size of your main drive?

>>57204342
You really couldn't answer that question yourself?

>>57200260
You've got it exactly backwards. The NSA wants you to make 3 or 4 copies of everything you own and distribute it widely. Why on earth would the NSA want you to *not* back up your data?

>>57204355
Anon's wife: Where are the family photos, honey? I thought you said you backed up our data?

Anon: Of course I did. Check the backup drive.

Anon's wife: Yeah, I did. It looks like there are only half the photos here. Where are the other 500 gigs of memories?

Anon: You really couldn't answer that question yourself?

old HDDs I have laying around

>>57195572
How is your rsync set up?
I'm deciding on either using a RAID 10 setup to back up my files or just using rsync to sync every week or so over sftp

Am I the only one who needs just ~200MB files? Any flash drive will work for backups unless you're NEET who backups his anime.

>>57193999
Checked
>trips of wisdom

>>57204768
I save a lot of things I don't need. I could probably get by with far, far less if I just copied the things that actually mattered.

But I do have some things that I saved for some reason, like a Beast Wars fan fiction archive that isn't even on the web archive -- It's like 2GB of text files -- also a complete rip of a Secret of Nimh fansite that went down before the archive started. Loads of my things are like that.

>>57195554
>worring about feds
Just dont do stupid/illegal shit. Go to therapy or kill yourself.

>>57193958
>If you back up to the cloud you probably shouldn't be on /g/.
Remote backups are safe provided you do the crypto yourself instead of relying on the service provider's client. AES-256 is post-quantum secure. Keep in mind that metadata analysis is possible if you eschew disk images for per-file encryption... and you probably do want to do that, otherwise backups would take forever.

But I don't do remote, because my internet speed is 0.4Mbit (0.05MiB) per second. Local 3TB HDD for me, set up as a Time Machine drives. Works a treat.

>>57193958
>If you back up to the cloud you probably shouldn't be on /g/.

I thought about doing it. And by the way, if I do, then you can just get right the fuck over it.

FUCK YOURSELF.

>>57193958
I don't backup. I use repositories and cloud services more for syncing multiple machines than backing up.

Otherwise, data goes on a RAID5. Not porn though.
Porn sits on an old Maxtor drive that clacks, has already failed on me once and has a number of corrupted clusters.

It gives me the most wonderful feel of edge.

>>57204417
It's space that that the OS itself takes up. Plus updates. The Temp folder. The swap partition. Image thumbnails. Programs that you need to reinstall anyway. Games you have installed that you have on Steam or physical disk. And of course, shit that you have on your drive but that isn't really that important ort that you can easily find again.

The family photos will be there. The wife won't ask where the System32 folder is.

You fucking autist.

>>57193958
OneDrive :^)

>>57195446
underrated

>>57195918
how do you test?

>>57193958
you mean back up or archive?
I back up all my shit on external HDD. "backed up" stuff isn't that important.
Important shit is archived on:
1) Home server with RAID disk arrays
2) Remote server in my parent's house
3) LTO-tapes hidden in NATO military ammunition boxes
4) Same as above, duplicate
5) If something is extremely important and doesn't wieght much I keep a copy of it in encrypted container locally on my laptop

That's pretty much all

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every time I beat up a laptop from physical use or general stupid shit. I rip out the hard drive put it in a case wipe it and it becomes an external hard drive, and a back up.

>>57198083
>not using tape

>>57199531
The only problem with hardware failure of backups is that you then, need another medium just as big just to recover the files into. that shit starts becoming expensive to. Been there, that is why I don't store shit in the computer anymore.

>>57205104
>not understanding the judicial system in the usa

the simple unfounded baseless accusation by anyone, will start an investigation on you.
investigators will eventually get a warrant and search your place, they will seize anything they find "relevant".

>>57193958
>backing up his data
>not living dangerously
oh come on, it's like you are a little pussy

I currently just use rsync to make a nightly snapshot of my file server and web server, and that it. (also, the Winblow$ computers in my house tun volume shadow copy)

Because I'm a (relatively speaking) poorfag.

I'll get a FreeNAS one day.

>>57205830
Holy fuck, maybe I should really invest in a tape drive

>>57197433
Pleb - raw uncompressed moe is where it is at

>>57195274
if you're backing up 2TB of data, ya

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>>57208667
>Holy fuck, maybe I should really invest in a tape drive

>LTO-6
>$2000 for the drive

>>57209156
Are you in the US?

Find a computer with a tape drive on ebay.

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>>57193958
I have a shitty five dollar flash drive with all my valuable files (i.e. porn). And a second laptop with all my most valuable files from that flash drive.

I have some things on Google Drive, but nothing sensitive enough for me to care.

>>57209289
Not that anon but what would I search to find a cheap tape drive?
I've been really interested in using one but they've always been too expensive. If I can find one for not mich more than $150 that would be great

>If you back up to the cloud you probably shouldn't be on /g/.

Where do you do your off-site backups then? A colocated server?

>>57209322
> all his porn fits onto a flash drive
Anon....

I convert all my important data to base64, print it out and hide in a safe.

>>57209373
It's mostly images.

PS Before I print it out, I encrypt it with OTP algorithm and my safe is hidden. In a Technodrome in Dimension X. Shredder doesn't know where it is.

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This

Roughly 19tb raw

>>57209400
That's how it starts. I had over 2.2tb before but had to free some disk space.