How do you back up your important data?

[BCoetzer]

How do you back up your important data?

 

[FiestaST]

I've said it before & will say it again, offline is best/breast. (External hard drive in my case).

Secondary is cloud gang.

YMMV.

 

[longboy]

3-2-1 bacup rule here.

I cannot afford to lose 16Tb of porn.

 

[Bernoldus Niemand]

50gb iCloud and a 10tb family Pcloud lifetime account. Also got a 1tb Koofr lifetime account. The world moved on from offline storage yonks ago.

 

[FiestaST]

 

[UB40]

Nothing I do or say is important, if it gets deleted it gets deleted.
Only my wife will remember the important bits

 

[Deandbn]

One drive day to day, and then onto three different hard disks monthly.

 

[My_King]

oh...



What a "disruptor"

Anyhow,

RAID 5 configs and PowerShell scripts.

As to answer where??? RAID 5 is a NAS and the PowerShell sends the data to Azure Storage.

 

[gregmcc]

Offline, daily sync scripts to a local NAS, data is encrypted and also uploaded to the Cloud

 

[Jam Sandwich]

CDs....

 

[chrisc]

Have 2 identical 8tb hard drives. Every day drive D: makes a copy of changed files on E:. I use Filesync for this. It takes 2 or 3 minsThen once a week I use GFI Backup which makes incremental backups on an external drive of drive C: and D:

All documents, pictures and Thunderbird email data is stored on drive D:

 

[bwana]

oh...

View attachment 1778087

What a "disruptor"

Anyhow,

RAID 5 configs and PowerShell scripts.

As to answer where??? RAID 5 is a NAS and the PowerShell sends the data to Azure Storage.

It's a little more involved than the clipped bit.

It's three copies on [at least] two different types of media, with [at least] one copy offsite. Backing up a copy to the cloud will cover one of each of those.

I take a few hundred thousand photos a year so min is more of a 2-2-1 strategy.

 

[SykomantiS]

Not a lot of the stuff I have require the complicated back up strategies that other people have in place. Semi important stuff get copied on to multiple drives as and when needed, with a google drive copy.

Work related stuff gets handled by IT, not my problem, not my job.

Really important stuff are probably with 3rd parties, like last ill and testament, etc.

 

[Jefferson D'Arcy]

I wear a very impressive lanyard on which 8-15 USB keys hang proudly.

 

[Pegging]

 

[xrapidx]

Other - NAS and Cloud

 

[Brian_G]

Agree with Fiesta, offline is best. No-one else involved.

50gb iCloud and a 10tb family Pcloud lifetime account. Also got a 1tb Koofr lifetime account. The world moved on from offline storage yonks ago.

At the moment the world also says you should jump into the proverbial fire.

 

[IamNoone]

3 clouds, 2 physical drives and 1 on my personal hosting account.

I have lost family photos on backups done on Onedrive and Dropbox being corrupted when I download the file. Not making that mistake again.

 

[dj_jyno]

3-2-1 here. Heard of too many people losing data before.

 

[Curt889]

I didn't, I then got angry at my pc and kicked it.
Now the drive is dead and I lost all my SARS stuff and all the pictures of my dog which past away, along with who knows what else.