Does /g/ back-up its files?

Of course but I know many people who don't

For example many just delete photos from their phones for storage, so thousands of photos, many of them personal, just disappear

>>60471868
Holy shit, that's awful.

I've heard a few stories in the past year of people's harddrives going and them losing work. Even developers who should be pushing things every day.

>>60471818
yes, I have duplicates of my important files on another partition.

>>60471818
I just did onto my ~10 year old external 250GB Samsung disk. It's making weird clicking noises. But you know the saying: every backup is better than no backup ...soooo

>>60471924
>Clicking HD
RIP

>>60471924
haha, I'm using my old dead hdds for backups too.
better than no backups.

>>60471818
420 Backblaze it.

>>60471818
question

qnap ts-431X or synology ds416? For backups and data streaming.

I'm leaning towards the qnap because it has a single a single 12cm fan and optional 10gbe (which is stupid expensive, but better to have an option for the future).

I want a NAS I can stream from. I also want a NAS that I can store 1080p/4k porn on.

Having the one device do both feels like a recipe for disaster.

>>60472015
you can get a single port 10gbe nic for like $50 on ebay, and a 2-3m sfp cable for about the same
I use my 8 bay synology as a fast direct attached storage that way

>>60472224
>and a 2-3m sfp cable for about the same

I need 10m minimum because the nas would sit in another room, and the cable would go through 2-3 walls so I need to crimp it myself.

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0 backups,
raw read errors increased from last time I checked 3 days ago.

Everything will be fine

>>60471818

Puši kurac

Nope.

>>60472278
a pair of used mini-gbics plus a basic multimode patch cable of that lenght shouldn't be much more expensive, if the devices' sfp ports aren't too picky

I have a 1TB external that I would really like to use as a backup for my C drive.

What do?

I use 5TB 2.5" externals for backup. Makes offsite swapping much more convenient, easy to carry. Winrar with recovery record for integrity.

>>60472366
>Everything will be fine
Do you have any files you care about?
If so copy them to a flash drive or sd card.

>>60472944
>I use 5TB 2.5" externals for backup. Makes offsite swapping much more convenient, easy to carry. Winrar with recovery record for integrity.

Why not par2 files?

Nope

I have a 2.5" 500GB HDD my laptop came with I was going to use for backing up the SSD I replaced it with. I got a Chink enclosure but it was DOA and I didn't bother ordering a new one after returning it. I live on the edge.

>>60471818
backups are for fags, desu. It's all useless shit. Everything is useless, stupid shit. None of it matters.

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>>60473364

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>>60471818
Absolutely.

>>60471818
email them to myself :^)

>>60471818
>tfw bought a Synology NAS like 4 years ago
>still works great

and they stopped giving me updates like 1 year ago... stupid technology, why does it last for so long

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>>60471818
cron + rsync for my rhel vm
robocopy for my movies/music/weeaboo
veracrypt container in dropbox for anything I need to be disaster proof.

summary/logs get sent to my phone nightly

>>60471818
Depends on what.

I upload stuff to dropbox and onedrive. If it's something I don't want other people to have access to, then I encrypt it. Pictures and shit like that I just upload to google photos due to infinite storage plus I don't really give a fuck if google has access to my non-sensitive photos.

Movies and TV-shows rest on my NAS, don't really give a fuck if that goes to hell since I can easily replace them.

>>60471886
Kek

>>60473421
If I didn't have the dust if the desert filling my work space every day I'd go that route. Looks like an increasing pain to keep clean over time. I'm shifting to 1 or 2 tb externals in addition to folders of Blu ray for my photography back ups. Redundent storage internal covers 6 months. Every 25gb tho i put on bluray and add to external drives i keep for the purpose in the closet

Everything important is in google drive.

>>60471818
>Does /g/ back-up its files?
Have an old Buffalo CloudStor sitting on the network somewhere. It's slow, but small, reliable, and quiet.

>>60473019
not that guy but depending on the type of data he archives, it might be more advantageous to have them in single archives.

What does /g/ do to keep a backup offsite?

You all know your backups are worth jack shit in case of a fire or your house gets robbed, right?

>>60471868

I have pictures from when I first got a phone with a camera from 2002, 40GB and counting backed up on a freenas sevrer and an separate 500 GB drive.

I regret not backing up my files
I was messing around with partitions on my drive and accidentally lost most of my data. Only sad about all the college work I lost.

What would you guys recommend? I would like to have 2 copies of backup i have about 2tb of data spread across various drives in my computer right now. I save a lot of video, music, books, and some misc webpage archives

>>60471818
To the cloud. obviously. I'm not some paranoid pedophile recluse with something to hide.

Fuck would I back up?
Then again, I run ARCH Linux as Root
>fuckme.jpg the day I fuck up

>>60473860
You could still recover it, assuming you didn't use that drive anymore after the loss.

I upload everything to Amazon cloud drive. Its bretty good for storing my TBs of anime, encrypted porn, and pictures. Unlimited space for $60 a year

>>60471955
Set up a RAID desu

>>60471818
16 tb raid 6

>>60474445
backups are externals.

I couldn't set up RAID because I just kept adding new hdds. Don't have money for a proper raid setup

>>60474512
Savemyserver.com. Get a chassis with a bunch of he'd slots, then get a bunch of returned hitachi ultra stars from serversupply.com

>>60473421
I want to buy some refurbished 2TB HDDs because they're so cheap, but I don't want so many hard drives in my home. I already have so many smaller HDD laying around and I don't want to throw them away. If I buy a new HDD it has to be 4TB or larger.

4x3TB raidz1 pool and a 10TB offline backup drive for it.

>>60474525
that's way way way out of my budget.

>>60474607
You'd be surprised. You can have a poweredge chassis with 8 slots and a raid controller for like 150, and the drives are like 40$ a piece.

>>60474695
yeah I don't want a rack with vacuum cleaner levels of sound in my home.

only fap stuff.

>>60473421
ID on that cradle/dock?

>there are people who still keep their drives at home

Buy cloud storage, its only like $5 a month for unlimited storage. That way if you accidently your house on fire from microwaving hot pockets, you won't lose your 400TB hentai collection. And if you have illegal shit, encrpyted it.

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Crashplan here. Has saved my ass a few times.

>>60475029
$60 for a year. $600 for ten years.

If your data has an expiration date it would make sense. Otherwise buy your own drives.

>>60473777
Encrypted LTO-6 tape locked up in my office desk.

No I don't and I will never back up anything. This is ridiculously stupid to do.

>>60475109
smart

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>>60475029
>Depending on the botnet to keep your files safe
>Depending on the network to be able to access files
>Depending on dipshit IT and infosec teams to keep your rare kumikos safe

>>60475114
weak bait

>>60471818
No why would I? All my important stuff is on disketes and i have avira,avira pro4490399t0930t send bitcoin 303494093000 bitcoin 4592059325 bitcoin

all your base are belong to us
send bitcoin

>>60472366
You're playing with fire my man

>>60475167
Lol

>>60473777
I've been meaning to ask: are safe generally magnetic? I want to get a water+fireproof one for hard drive storage, but if they were magnetic then they'd fuck with the discs, right?

What's a cheap solution for automated backups of 2 4tb drives? It's mostly movies / TV shows / music and the beginnings of a comic collection.

>>60475172
He is living dangerously. let him. He may be stronger than all of us.

>>60472015
>qnap ts-431X or synology ds416?

anyone?

>not using magnetic tapes to back up your files.
>not storing your magnetic tapes in a air controlled room underground hundreds of miles away.

for what reason?

I mail my tapes to bud and he keeps me up to date with maintenance reports as well. Why submit yourself to the OpticalDisk(tm) botnet?

>>60471818
Only media that's hard to get and I really care about, personal stuff, and important data.

No point in backup up the TBs of anime, games, andTV shows, there's always new stuff coming out even if I can't redownload the old ones anymore. I just trust those to redundancy.

>>60471818
Yes. I have a 4TB raid'd pool on my server that I use for general storage and I keep a 4TB disk in a dock on my desk that I make frequent backups of it with.

Iv had a 2tb external drive sitting around for so many years and iv probably put less than a 50gb of data on it.

What do you guys have that needs to be BACKED UP. I write a ton of code for work and personal projects but thats all obviously on github.

I wipe my computer for fun and reinstall everything a few times a year. Old data is gross.

>>60475237
Anyone? Guess it might depend on the brand though.

>>60476029
>needs to be backed up

Well personally it's not about a need but a want, storage is cheap so why not? I don't save literally everything but any media and personal photos/documents/games I try to keep safe for years to come that I can look back on.

>>60476029
because some of us actually run up-time intensive services. Ever use a computer to actually host something?

>>60476063
iv heard this argument a few times and i guess thats okay. but im a cheap ass so if it isnt "free" it isnt cheap for me.

>>60476068
haha babbies first minecraft server

>>60476029
>>60476063
>>60476075

To add, torrent sites are going down left and right nowadays so I try to keep anything saved so I can get it later or share it to people who want it. You never know when the time will come around that the file isn't available anymore, just look at what happened with what.cd, tons of rare audio that was lost. It's their own fault for keeping it private, but still. I'm sure there are plenty of people who kept the shit they got from there backed up and archived, but we will never know.

>>60476084
was thinking more along the lines of a centralized git or HTTP server but ok.

>>60476090
This is another fine point, youre doing a great service. I just cant be bothered to care, someone out there like you will save me when that time comes

>>60475237
>>60476053
>are safe generally magnetic
No.
>hard drive storage
Hard drives don't retain data very well. You either want tape or copies of data on arrays at different locations.

All backed up to my server if it's important. Also have a 500GB external I made out of the drive that came with my T420. Keep copies of my encrypted file containers on there.

>>60476108
I totally understand where you're coming from though with the price. It isn't cheap for a lot of people, drives of quite a large size, especially in RAID, cost a pretty penny. But I already run a lot of services for my home use so some extra storage is always nice.

>>60476103
yeah.... if youre important enough to run a centralised git or HTTP server you arnt going to be a NEET on /g/. Those applications have a very obvious, undebatable, need to back stuff up.

we're talking about your average joe after he comes home from work writing 2 year old documents to 4 separate drives.

where my raspberry pi bros at?
slow as fuck, quiet and discreet. use it as a time machine back up

>>60474264
What happens if you stop paying?
Will you still have access to your files but without permison of add/modify/replace just like onedrive?

>>60471868
>not having an android phone and just moving the photos to the 128gb sd card

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>>60472774
I like Bvckup2 on Windows. Fast and very easy to use.

>>60471818
>putting HDDs on a toaster
fool

>>60472366
what program is that ?
i use defraggler

>>60471984
>Backblaze for personal backup
Seems like a waste of money and you give someone else all of your data...

>>60471818
I use RAID1 and hope no one deletes anything.

>>60476029
>old data is gross

Depends which data. Saving music and personal photos is mandatory. These are timeless. For the rest i agree.

>>60471818
What is in OPs pic?
Is it some kind of USB 3.0/3.1 external multi HDD/SSD case?

is it bad that my backup is literally mirror disks that copy on a set schedule, not even RAID?

I just want to protect against hardware failure, I know what I'm deleting and what I'm not, it's mostly media.

I'm scared of RAID because of it getting fucked and corrupted and not being re-buildable. also the cards are expensive. I know RAID saves space but I like the idea of being able to just take an HD out and know what movies are on it and being able to read it on anything.

>>60476029
hoarding for the apocalypse/blackouts and the risk that something rare I have could disappear from general availability. also not having to wait for downloads, having a lot of media for like home theater purposes is nice because it's instant. also travel, if you wanna load up something on your mobile device it's much faster to get it locally.

I would hate to have something happen and loose all my files, and not being able to remember some file I had forgotten about. with a backup I can "look back" and say "oh shit I forgot I had that movie it was amazing" or something.

I should, but I don't really want to buy the 6TB and additional enclosure it would require to back it up. Was considering pushing it into glacier but now that Comcast has fucked everyone with data caps that option is gone.

>>60473717
This.

I get parity, compression, and post-archive validation of integrity in one go. And I can encrypt and/or split the archive when needed.

>>60477011
looks like a nas

I just want me a 24 bay 4u rack with direct sata connection. For $400 or less. Is that too fucking much to ask

tfw linux + ssd so i can literally rip the battery out of my laptop and have no loss unless i didnt save recently

143 hard halts like this and counting

What I back up:

Photos and videos (13 years of phone+DSLR): 450GB

Scans (digitized film and images in RAW): 500GB

3D modeling folder (5 years of project files, curated tutorial videos): 400GB

Software installers and OS: 400GB

Virtual machines: 500GB

Documents (Digitized medical records, digitized paper): 400GB

Music (Flac): 400GB

Research papers: 100GB

3D scanning: 800 GB

Cryotocurrency synced wallets: 500GB

Shit adds up.

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You bet.

Yes after horrible lesson learned.

My 4TB external HDD failed because it was placed near my feet, resulting accidental kicking on the hardware. It failed after just 3 years.

Managed to recover all the data using HDD recovery service but I was jewed 800 sheckel.

How are 2.5" external hard drives compared to 3.5"?

I was looking at a 4TB drive as a back-up, and the 2.5" was the exact same price as the 3.5".

The 2.5" is smaller and doesn't require an external power supply, so what's the downside?

>>60479057

No difference unless you considered the rotation speed.

>>60471818
Yes

Amazon S3 is an absolute wonder. I pay less than a dollar a month to have all my photos stored there.

>>60479044
800 dollars to run gparted lmao

>>60479190
>gparted

Tried that but not avail. In the end it's the header itself damaged.

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>tfw used to rely on a single external HDD for everything
>if it ever died I would have lost all my music, movies and porn
now I have a NAS that backups to an equal sized HDD once per week.

>>60479213
so buy an identical drive and replace it in a clean room (diy) easy to do for less than half the price. i guess if you're got no skills it makes sense

>>60471818
How can I back up my files?

>>60479345
plz no bully

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How do these work? can I get a cheap server and use normal hard drives with these hot-swap things or are they using proprietary ports?

>>60479390
external internal hdd, use a dock

>>60479506
im too diy focused, im like an old man who hates paying for other stuff

>>60473466
nice

>>60479546
Is /diy/ any good? Planning to build a reptile enclosure in the not so distant future, maybe they have some advice.

I keep all my media and other stuff I don't want to lose on a 2tb external. Since the loss on nyaa it made me paranoid about losing stuff so in the near future am either going to set-up an NAS or get a 4tb hd in my main computer and put it in RAID. May very well do both.

Always back-up that shit don't wanna lose. Don't gamble on finding it again.

>>60476877
hd tune

>>60472366
This is basically my approach

Yolo

>>60471818
I back up my host OS with an rsync script I wrote every now and then manually from the SSD to an internal 3TB drive and once in a blue moon make an extra backup on another external 3TB drive.
My Chinese cartoons stash and other data gets backed up to the external 3TB drive.

Tempted to turn my old rig into a home server of sorts for performing automated scheduled remote backups and serve as a NAS for streaming media and torrenting and what not.

>>60471818
No because I'm not a fucking hoarder.

>>60471818
>/g/
>its
Nice subject-noun agreement faggot.

>>60476029
rare anime

All the important stuff is on Dropbox.
All the disposable shit (movies, porn, games, chink cartoons etc.) are on HDDs.

>>60471818
Yes, to the external 2,5" hdd.

>>60471818
>tfw have 2tb internal drive
>plus 2 external drives
>plus 4 flash drives

im fucked. on one hand i have data on seperate places but the other hand nothing is in one place for easy access

>>60479592
yes but please dont post questions like this that are long winded requests. anyway for a snake or lizard use glass and silicone if its small, make a wood box frame and glue the panels with silicon to it if its large. maybe route the uv lamp through the wooden frame. perhaps light uv tinting on the panels. what sort of reptile?

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>>60473421

>>60483474
Wasn't really looking for details ITT. Might post a thread on /diy/.

>>60484254
>no zfs

>>60484276
jbod is when zfs comes in.

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Are these even useful for anything?

>>60484311
Being a waste of money, that's about it.

>>60484311
They are useful if you just want 1 drive shared into the entire network at max speed, with no PC running nonstop to share it. That's about it.

>>60471818
Not anymore. I have nothing of value. I ripped out and sold my 20TB of backup HDDs from my home server. I keep a small RAID mirror to sync over some git repos and pictures in case skydrive fucks up.

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Bought this. Don't know really why. The only thing I wouldn't want to lose is hard to find porn and I don't want to put that on a shared drive.

>>60486265
I can plug an external hard drive directly to the usb port on my router and get that.

>>60487914
you'll get 10MB/sec speeds on it that way, as opposed to 100MB/sec.

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>>60471818
I usually connect my external 2tb drive and back up my shitposting and doc folders, is this okay?

>>60487986
Fair point

Backup to blu-ray R as much as possible, rent a VPS, and starting to duplicate some of the most important to Amazon S3/Glacier

>>60471868
I know people who keep their old PC from a decade ago just for viewing a few photos because they don't understand files can be copied.

>>60488909
You should charge them a fortune for "data recovery".

>>60471818
I would, just don't know the best software that would do periodic incremental backups.

>>60473421
> WD Green
I've got some magic beans you might be interested in.

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>>60489041
WD Green is a very good budget HDD as long as you disable head parking. It's that forced head parking that destroys the drives early, especially since the keep putting them in portable cases, which puts more stress on the heads than if they are not moving.

If you disable head parking and use them as desktop drives as intended, they can last very long.