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Moral of this story: 1) Always, always, always have backups. 2) If you do not host it yourself, on hardware you own and control, then you are at the mercy of
by uuoc 10y ago
Moral of this story:
1) Always, always, always have backups.
2) If you do not host it yourself, on hardware you own and control, then you are at the mercy of the corporate overlord that does own and control the hardware you are borrowing.
- _Understated_ 10y ago^ This x 1000 I feel for the guy, I do, since I have been there myself: I learned the hard way a few years back when my only drive died :( I recently took stock of my backup situation and found it lacking so I changed it: Working data on 2 x 3TB RAID1 WD Reds Sync'd to my laptop via OneDrive (changing as I type this to Sync.com - getting rid of OneDrive) Backups nightly to WD NAS downstairs Monthly backups to USB drive that goes almost everywhere with me. Not perfect as Sync.com is my only offsite but I am confident that anything short of a direct nuclear strike should be salvageable. Edit: Clarity and formatting
- ctrlrsf 10y agoThe backups to USB drive are crucial since a bug could wipe out your synced files. If not already, I suggest you encrypt it, especially since you take it around with you.
- _Understated_ 10y agoI encrypted it with Bitlocker: not perfect but I am not worried about the NSA coming after me. :)