Tri-modular redundancy: 3 drives, 500 GB, 1TB & 2TB. The 500 GB is less than half full and is the oldest drive. The cloud would only be a convenience backup, like if I ever go traveling again. How about for collaboration?Great stuff - but NEVER FORGET that it is not yours anymore, and can vanish at any second- especially if you are not paying for it.
Back it all up locally.
Back it all up locally.
Back it all up locally.
I've been using Backblaze for years, very satisfied with their service.For backup, Backblaze (https://www.backblaze.com) has a long history and an excellent reputation, with very good pricing.
For collaboration, Dropbox is pervasive and works very well.
I use a free dropbox account but it may be a grandfathered thing. When I look at their site, I don't see a free account anymore.Ideally what I would like to have is something of limited capacity that I would not have to pay for and that was publicly accessible.
I just went around and around with Amazon because my Kindle app stopped working and I've lost my only E-book. A pox on there miserable hovels!
Agree. I only do local backups. I also have my backup utility on a bootable USB stick, as well on bootable CD (for older machines). One has to remember, when the system drive crashes, you have no internet until you recover your system. Catch 22. How to do that varies, but not easy without an operating system connected to your "cloud". You can't recover without your recovery, unless the "cloud" system gives you some form of bootable media to recover with.Great stuff - but NEVER FORGET that it is not yours anymore, and can vanish at any second- especially if you are not paying for it.
Back it all up locally.
Back it all up locally.
Back it all up locally.
Why not use GitHub?I back up source code changes daily, at least, to two or three PCs. Every six months or so, complete backups to a 2TB drive, and several SD and flash drives. I'm considering cloud for long term storage but I'll certainly encrypt the files first.
What happens if you have a fire? To be most effective, backups should be automatic and distributed.I only do local backups.
Everyone has different disaster recovery priorities, but for my personal data, I just need it to be recoverable, not recoverable within x hours. Whether my main hard drive dies or a flood destroys my computer, it'll take me a few days to get a new system going, so I'm fine to wait for Backblaze to ship me an external drive with all my data on it.You can't recover without your recovery, unless the "cloud" system gives you some form of bootable media to recover with.
I might look into that.Why not use GitHub?
You'll never look back, the power a developer gets when using Git is hard to overstate.I might look into that.
I've accessed GitHub for open source repos, but can't think of any advantage to using for my own personal projects. My backup procedure is quite secure. I store in ZIPs and test the copied files for errors. The files within the ZIPs are the complete set of source code control database files of my own design and have CRCs stored for each and every file, which I check regularly.Why not use GitHub?
Git is version control, not backup. That it has a copy of your source is a side effect, not its purpose.I've accessed GitHub for open source repos, but can't think of any advantage to using for my own personal projects. My backup procedure is quite secure.
Actually, git appears to be a workflow tool; advocates use it for more than source control. Hence the complexity, and hence I have little use for it. First time I used a flavor of git, it kept telling me I had a detached head. Still don't know what that means, and I don't want to know.Git is version control, not backup.