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Rule of thumb: if your important files are not backed up in at least 3 different places, then those files are not important.

Am I the only one who prints out memes and reaction pics incase of an EMP?

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>>62262901
rare pepe's will become currency

Daily backups with Veeam
LTO5 tapes per month

>>62262863
NAS (RAID-1) makes regular (about weekly) full backups to another disk. Important files are incrementally backed up daily to a co-worker's NAS and a full backup every month. He does the same vice versa.

Remote backups are encrypted and keys are stored on a few physically separated flash drives.

Next to this my gf makes additional backups of her own data on an external HDD.

The backup scheme will change a bit when my new NAS is ready. I will go nuts with zfs snapshots and backup those as well.

>>62262863
I've got a Seagate 1TB Backup plus to backup myself, with manual backups every week or so. I unplug the drive when I'm not back things up.

Is there anyway to improve my backup strategy?

>>62263206
You don't even own anything of worth your larper

>>62262863
no backups
I know very well when my drive is about to fail so I've got 200% chance of successful recovery

>>62262863
>Or do you live on the edge and not backup anything?

This but I at least use RAID 5

Configs and code via github, everything else is not worth keeping. The only thing kept save are pics I take (/out/ with dslr 1-2 times per month) which I rsync manually to a server after sorting out the crappy ones.

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>tfw my 5 year old Seagate HDD has been giving me errors for months and making strange vibrating noises
>tfw too poor to afford an extra HDD for backup

>>62262863
Every once in a while I run

tar target.$(date '+%Y%m%d').tar.xz source_drive

>>62263229
Data-loss is just very annoying. Especially when it's easily avoided. Your basement probably hasn't have anything of value as well but would you care if it burned down? Probably.

My gf runs her own small business. She's required by law to keep certain info for a few years. Not being able to present this data when requested would be a felony.

>>62263303
Use some free cloud to back up the important shit (encrypt it beforehand) and cut down on Mountain Dew and pizza to save for a new drive.

>>62263275
At least you understand that RAID isn't backup.

Also, if you have big disks (>3TB) and no zfs or similar there's a pretty big change that you won't be able to restore your array after a single disk failure. RAID-5 in the classical sense it pretty useless.

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>>62262863
dual 4x SSD RAID 0s backed to a 16x 4TB Storage Spaces Direct mirrored ReFS cluster with Veeam
SSD ReFS cluster is backed up to 3TB external HDDs configured as a virtual tape library with Starwind/Veeam

>>62263416
>won't be able to restore your array after a single disk failure.
No it just means you suffer a corrupt bit(s), any decent array controller will be able to continue building on a error

I keep important documents encrypted on my NAS with an automated weekly backup to a USB external HDD that alerts me via email on success.
It also syncs to dropbox and google drive (still encrypted of course).
My digital hoarding I just keep on the NAS with the same USB backup but I don't bother to encrypt it or send it to the cloud (although I do have emergency Plex server and porn collection on an unlimited trial dropbox)

>>62263206
RAID is not a backup solution

External hard drives and then another backup of those external hard drives (one set are connected to the computer and the other set are stored in a pelican-like hardcase)

I really need to think about offsite backup though. I do keep a 128GB flash drive on my keychain with my most important data but it's not enough. I do take a separate external 2,5" hard drive with me when I need my backpack, but that's not always doable.

Cloud storage is too expensive for my storage needs and I'd rather just keep using external drives. Maybe if my bank has a safety deposit box available with flexible visiting times. (don't care about law enforcements snatching them up because of encryption)

>>62263438
Yes, but the affected data is corrupted and lost forever. Note that the guy I replied to doesn't have backups to restore from.

>>62263395

I found a chinese one that gives 1TB of free cloud storage compared to the garbage 10GBs western services give, should I trust the oriental merchant?

>>62263303
Lucky that you can tell it's failing.
My 5 year old drive just fucking died

>>62263481
Please continue reading after the first instance of the word RAID.

>>62262863
all my backup worthy files combined are less than 100 MB so I simply store them on 2 USB Sticks, an USB drive and 3 devices.

>>62262901
Yes, if an EMP hits you'd better be worried about things other than memes. Like staying alive/restoring civil order.

>>62263495
No, but as long as you use encryption it doesn't matter. To them you are storing noise.

>>62263303
My 7 year old Samsung drive just died all of a sudden yesterday while I was browsing the internet, searching for a larger HDD to store more media for my server. I blame botnet.

>>62263494
>Yes, but the affected data is corrupted and lost forever.
So? You suffer minor corruption in what is likely a single file. That is far different from what you claims - that you cant rebuilt an array. Also all the bullshit you're spewing is based around the assumption of using shitty desktop class disks instead of enterprise class disks.

>>62263507
What about your 50tb of chink cartoons?

>>62263507
>backup worthy files
>chink cartoons

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>>62263535
>chink cartoons
>he hasn't moved on to watching raws of north korean variety shows

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Anoder harddrave

>>62262863
i backup to nsa

>>62263810
Just btw for fans of GnT.. that pic is from a new episode of Silent Library that aired on Sunday.
Really worth watching if you haven't seen it already. There's barely any talking, so you don't really need subs.

>>62263884
no, NSA does the backup for you

>>62263945
not on my linux pc