"Safety Deposit Box" - how much storage would you need to put in there, to fully recover from disaster? Photos, data, ripped music / movies - all your content.
I could probably get away with a single 1T drive... You?
I could probably get away with a single 1T drive... You?
I have over 2TB I’d saved data in two safes
Old wedding and honeymoon photos family photos, old obsolete games and software. And tons of beta testing programs that I did over the years for robotics and stuff. Obviously I could do away with 90% of the stuff and not even know about it and would not interfere in my day-to-day life
Old wedding and honeymoon photos family photos, old obsolete games and software. And tons of beta testing programs that I did over the years for robotics and stuff. Obviously I could do away with 90% of the stuff and not even know about it and would not interfere in my day-to-day life
I am a bit of a digital hoarder, 2TB only covers music....right now a full backup of everything would be around 7TB but if a meteor was incoming I could probably get it down to 4TB, twice (you do backup your backup yeah?)
I‘m at 2.5 tb media (fotos, movies, music)
While the movies aren’t that important to me, music and fotos are.
Their respective importance are reflected („accidentally“) by the number of backups:
Movies 1 copy
Pictures 2 copies
Music 3 copies
...
Problem is, that’s just the digital stuff.
So that meteor better not hit my house OR...
While the movies aren’t that important to me, music and fotos are.
Their respective importance are reflected („accidentally“) by the number of backups:
Movies 1 copy
Pictures 2 copies
Music 3 copies
...
Problem is, that’s just the digital stuff.
So that meteor better not hit my house OR...
you guys dont have to worry about saving "apocalypse data", your friends in the CIA have been saving it for you 🙂
I backup my 3 Tb+ zRAID NAS system to a second NAS zRAID.
Will soon begin to copy to a 3rd NAS SBC with a single 8 Tb drive for safety.
I will probably keep the 8 Tb off site.
Excessive? It's not.
Will soon begin to copy to a 3rd NAS SBC with a single 8 Tb drive for safety.
I will probably keep the 8 Tb off site.
Excessive? It's not.
I usually kept my backups in the same computer that does most of my work. There was one boot / programs drive, two work drives, and one backup drive. The thought was that it would be unlikely for two drives to fail at once......then I dropped the whole PC down the basement steps when moving house.....lots of pictures lost forever.
In typical DUMM BLONDE style, I still do the backup in the same PC thing, but there are now two PC's with all critical stuff on both PC's. Since both PC's are in the basement, and we are in a flood zone, I keep a bare drive upstairs with a third copy made once every other week or so, or after a major PC event, like tax time.
The drive in the firesafe upstairs is a 10 TB drive and it's more than half full. I have old files from the dark ages. I built my first "PC" in 1982 from parts fetched from a dumpster at the IBM plant in Boca Raton where the "top secret" PC was developed. Like the Motorola plant where I worked, the former IBM plant is now an office park, no Big Blue people left.
In typical DUMM BLONDE style, I still do the backup in the same PC thing, but there are now two PC's with all critical stuff on both PC's. Since both PC's are in the basement, and we are in a flood zone, I keep a bare drive upstairs with a third copy made once every other week or so, or after a major PC event, like tax time.
The drive in the firesafe upstairs is a 10 TB drive and it's more than half full. I have old files from the dark ages. I built my first "PC" in 1982 from parts fetched from a dumpster at the IBM plant in Boca Raton where the "top secret" PC was developed. Like the Motorola plant where I worked, the former IBM plant is now an office park, no Big Blue people left.
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Well before I "purged" I had a 3TB hard drive over 50% full. Now I have all 300GB of non-duplicated data synced to Onedrive. Even then most of it is stuff like uni work that is meaningless now, which leaves me with 200GB of high quality music (file format, not the music itself) and photos (raw files but again the subject matters are questionable...)
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To be a different voice here, if all my drives crashed and I lost everything I'd probably get over it, maybe even enjoy it.
4TB & growing every day.
I wonder those of You who have several backup copies, do You keep them at the same place ? I mean my cousin who runs a textile company, has a daily backup at the factory, Weekly backup at home & now he's using also the cloud. A company where I worked 30 years ago had a flame proof vault in the office to store the ancient IBM system backup disquettes.
I wonder those of You who have several backup copies, do You keep them at the same place ? I mean my cousin who runs a textile company, has a daily backup at the factory, Weekly backup at home & now he's using also the cloud. A company where I worked 30 years ago had a flame proof vault in the office to store the ancient IBM system backup disquettes.
That might be the "cool" thing to say, but not a good way to go about it. You could put off someone whose been stalling from backing up their data.
Back up your data people! Dont cry when you loose it.
You have only yourself to blame.
1tb of data collected through the years from various hobbies, including digital photos. For example my AudioStuff folder is close to 40gb at this stage.
Another terabyte of audio files, used to have a 2tb drive full of audio when the drive failed, and i failed to keep a backup copy. ....bit embarrassing when you work in IT for a living.
There is also a lot of data from Games, but most of those are re downloadable from online sources so i don't bother backing them up.
I also have a few hundred floppy disks and CD's in the attic with just about every PC game i have ever had, and every version of DOS and Windows ever created. Don't really know why i am holding onto those as they will never see the light of day..
Another terabyte of audio files, used to have a 2tb drive full of audio when the drive failed, and i failed to keep a backup copy. ....bit embarrassing when you work in IT for a living.
There is also a lot of data from Games, but most of those are re downloadable from online sources so i don't bother backing them up.
I also have a few hundred floppy disks and CD's in the attic with just about every PC game i have ever had, and every version of DOS and Windows ever created. Don't really know why i am holding onto those as they will never see the light of day..
If everything was lost, I would be most upset about almost half a million pictures I have taken since I got my first 4 megapixel Nikon, and over 1000 CD's and records that I have copied on to my PC, all in WAV format at at 16/44 or 24/96. Those total about 2 TB.
My data drive is 10TB and is 60% full. It's approximately an even split between photos, music, other media and data.
I have three backups of everything. One backup is remote.
I have three backups of everything. One backup is remote.
When storing ancient media (cdroms, floppy discs, software etc), it shouldn‘t be forgotten that the media degrade, the hardware needed to read/run them possibly will become unfunctional (like, an app written for 32bit systems won‘t run on a today’s computer anymore...)
Easier with media-files like images and music, but—who knows?
Easier with media-files like images and music, but—who knows?