What's the proper way for the regular everyday desktop user

Umm, don't?

All my documents are on OneDrive, everything else I can just download again. Usually only time I end up losing all my data is when I want to start with a clean slate anyway.

BD-R discs

But why the fuck would you turn this into a chore and do it daily? I only back up the most important shit every month or 2 on 25GB BD-R discs.

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whats the proper way for regular everyday assburger to get irregular gf?

>>58868027
Get rich

I just take a full image of my C: partition in Windows and my Linux / partition (everything except /home) every month or two, or right before I do something major like try another distro

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>>58867968
>hands over his life to the botnet and government
>preps a bull
>takes his wife's son to the park
>pushes zaquarian on swing
>thinks finally going to pass that A+ exam for sure this time

>>58868027
Move to SEA.

>>58867927
Only backup the stuff that you care about, which will make up around 1-10% of your space. This includes sensitive data, configs/appdata and documents and anything else that can not be gotten from somewhere else. Everything else can be redownloaded.

As a normal user you'll probably be fine with a cheap, extra 5400 HDD. Just make sure to use something like rsync or whatever else, don't simply copy/paste the whole data, since that is highly insecure. Don't use stuff like gdrive and onedrive because of muh privacy

If you have a bit more money build a NAS or rent a VPS, I'm sure there is software that lets you autosync certain things. Also, always encrypt it. Its not like you need to read/write it constantly.

rsyncing to an undisclosed server.

gpg encrypting anything before you use one of the 'free' services.

>>58868027
Get rich BEFORE you move to SEA.

I just store anything that is important or takes up a lot of space on my 4TB WD Green drive.
I don't have a lot of shit that I care about.
I do have a 1TB external that currently has zero use so I would like to make an image of my C drive.

>>58867927

Backup where? If it is local storage use built in backup features.

If you want remote storage, use BackBlaze or whatever (make sure that your data is encrypted from your side).

>>58867968
>post starts with um
>post contents is some retarded garbage not worth reading
Sounds about right

>>58867968
The real problem with onedrive and its friends is that they sync your shit automatically, so if you fuck up one of your documents, you can't recover an old version. Another problem is that the free version of onedrive only gives you 5 gigs, the free version of google drive only gives you 15, which is not enough for backing up photos and videos. I guess you could use google photos, but that reduces the quality of your videos.

>>58868919
I wish I could gift or give away my google drive space. I have 125GB due to some purchase. I've used zero space. Fuck Google.

upload them to the cloud. I'm serious.
If they are embarassing files they should not exist not on the cloud, not anywhere.

>>58869933
>upload them to the cloud goys
t.schlomo shekelstein

>>58867927
I use two methods.

The first is an external HDD (3TB WD Red in a USB enclosure), with Time Machine backing up to this drive every hour. This protects me against failure of my main SSDs and accidental file deletion, and partially protects me against power supply failures (the USB chipset and enclosure means there are a couple more fuses between the PSU and the drive) and local emergencies (I can grab the drive and then use to completely restore my working environment onto any OSX machine).

The second is a cloud backup. There are many options for this, personally I just use a home grown rsync-based script which runs overnight and backs up a limited subset of my files to a VPS I operate. I have it set so my script can't delete files from the VPS, only add them/add new versions. This protects me against physical destruction of my hardware, malware (that's smart enough to go after a backup drive), and hypothetical failure of both main and backup drives.

The first is the easiest to set up and it's many times better than nothing. If you currently have no backups, get an auto-backup to an external drive working first. Then you can consider also adding a cloud-based solution.

>>58868339
So if something happens right before your next image, you will have lost two months of work?

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>>58868449

be more specific. pacific or atlantic??? why the ocean

a cronjob

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What does everyone think about blu-ray disc backups?

It's cheap after you get the blu-ray optical drive, like $40/1TB

>>58870244
>work
More like 2 months of memes, movies ,and porn.

>>58870244
All important files (schoolwork, mostly) I have are stored on both my desktop and flash drive, and sometimes also my laptop. Once I get around to setting up a home server, it will also be there, probably accessible through nextcloud.
Worst case scenario, I lose all my ricing

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>>58870705
>$40/1TB
???

>>58867927
Backblaze or something equivalent. Cloud backup solutions like that are the easiest way to do off-site backups for the regular user and you don't want you backup disc next to your main drive. A thief or a fire will take both of them at the same time.

>>58871142
I actually have very few memes saved (I'm mostly a phone poster so it's on there), and no movies or porn at all. I'm not even a weeb.

>>58867927
Sync on the cloud

>>58871219
>no memes, no porn, and not a weeb
What are you even doing here, senpai.

>>58871260
Most people here aren't weebs. A lot of folks post animu just to troll people.

>>58871292
And I thought I had found friends... ;_;

>>58867927
CUTE

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>>58871343

I use a NAS with redundancy for storing my photos, movies etc. and sync the photos folder with Amazon's free online solution for unlimited storage for photos.

If you really want to backup your files against fire/theft etc you're going to have to sync them on someone else's server (the cloud). AWS is pretty good and you can encrypt your files also.


If you're against that you could always have a second NAS at a family members house and sync it to that instead.

Synology is a good out the box solution for home storage.

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>>58871174
>mechanical hard drive prone to mechanical failures vs disc that lasts over 100 years if stored properly
hmmmmm

Tar gz your files into one folder. Encrypt and transfer to dedicated backup or cloud providers.

>>58867927
Would penetrate.

>>58873020
>single mechanical hard drive that has better read & write speeds and is less likely to break in half vs 40 blu-rays that each have to be labelled, not to mention the failure rate getting worse the more you have

>>58867927
Most of your important data is probably going to be a small amount of data.

So collect it all in big .rar file and send it to yourself through gmail.

OK my $PWD is backup folder on my backupdrive.
What's a good rsync command to write new or changed ~/.dotfiles and ~/folder1 and ~/folder2 to current working directory. Avoid symlinks pls.

>>58873267
>not realizing .rar is a meme
I also just think google just stopped allowing people to send encrypted archives over gmail. So if you are going to do this, that data really ISNT that important.

>>58873249
>>single mechanical hard drive that has better read & write speeds
Not really relevant in things you archive. Also 6X (27MB/s) isn't that slow.

>and is less likely to break in half vs 40 blu-rays that each have to be labelled, not to mention the failure rate getting worse the more you have
lolwut, 20 50GB blu-ray discs isn't much and failire rate of blu-rays is like 0.1%.

Anyway I'd much rather have 20 blu-rays stacked in a small spindle than a 1TB mechanical hard drive that will kill over and die any moment especially if exposed to ransomeware (BD-R doesn't have this problem).

The only real competition to blu-ray discs are SSDs but a 1TB one costs $300+

>>58867927
She looks like she is going to pull a gun out of her purse and shoot the photographer and her friend is stopping her.

rsync

>>58874732
Those discs don't last, they deliberately lie about the shelf life because by the time the crap goes bad they won't be relying on that revenue any longer because new technology will be around.

You got fucking baited hard if you have a bluray burner. Shit was depreciated before it was released.

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>>58867927
god damn those "girls" are ugly. right one doesn't even look human.

>>58874774
Do you have any sources to backup your statements or are you the official clown of /g/ like everyone claims?

friendly reminder that only pull-backups (remote box downloads data from your computer) protect from ransomware. push-backups (push to nas, external hdd, optical media) will just give you backups of filename.locky

>>58874859
Piles of optical discs that I had to throw away because they had read errors after only a few years.

Bluray is a fucking joke DRM format by Sony trying to push optical media that died a long time ago.

>>58874938
You're not a very good clown you know :p

I rate you 2/10

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>>58874992
>replying to tripfags

>>58867927
>regular everyday desktop user having data to lose

wut

>>58875078
>Not syncing your data every few days to a second HDD in the same machine and backing up to the cloud every month.

>>58875020
This is supposed to be the official clown of /g/ albeit not a very good one.

Can you recommend another tripfag on /g/ who is a better clown?

I don't back shit up much but I just looked into BD and is this the fucking best we have to deal with in 2017? where the fuck are the 100+ GB discs? 25 GB what the fuck am i supposed to do with that, the 7 dollar USB flash drive I bought on newegg has 32 GB and doesn't need special snowflake drive to read/write.

This is a damn shame, I expected us to have better by now.

>>58868756
>Only backup the stuff that you care about, which will make up around 1-10% of your space.
you people really don't do much else than facebook apparently. My OS is less than 1% of my backups, it's fucking tiny in comparison

>>58867927
For each main disk I have (internal, main external, etc) I buy a second big enough to fit its content (or just the same model), and now and then either clone, image, or plain filecopy the contents. I basically keep all my disks in cold/sometimes-synced clone pairs

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>>58874788
>god damn those "girls" are ugly. right one doesn't even look human.

256 GB USB Flash drives seem to be the most cost effective at around $50-$60 for a solid state solution. we're still talking ~$200/TB which isn't great, with SSD's being around ~300/TB.

Of course spinning drive USB backups will be the best for the money, averaging just over $20/TB so that's pretty much the best option for large backups.

M-DISC

>>58874732
27 MB/s is dogshit slow for regular backups, but yeah, it's adequate for archiving.

>ransomeware (BD-R doesn't have this problem)
Nor does GNU/Linux with an external hard drive for backups, unless I get a linux-specific ransomware while my external is connected to my PC.

>and failire rate of blu-rays is like 0.1%.
Great. With 20 disks, you have a 1.98% chance of having a bad disk. With 40, it's 3.92%.

>>58867927
Left - Would not
Right - Would

Two redundant mirror image offsite backups on physical media in a temperature controlled secure environment

Update backups at any frequency you desire, monthly is my rate. Depends on what you do with your data, how much you have and how much you are willing to lose if things go wrong

Live boot a Unix distro and use dd command to copy image of all live drives to backup drives

Any other answer is wrong

>Trusting online file hosts with personal data
What happens when have no access to the internet? Short term? Long term? What about privacy? How naive are you?

if you do illegal stuff you should die and never upload them anywhere anyway.
if you backup normal stuff stop being a faggot and just use google drive.

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>>58868437

holy kek A+ work amigo