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I live nomadically and am often without a stable-fast internet connection. So my backup solution has been catered to what I feel makes the most sense to me (Of
by tjbiddle 10y ago
I live nomadically and am often without a stable-fast internet connection. So my backup solution has been catered to what I feel makes the most sense to me (Of course always open to improvements!)
I have a 1TB Google Drive plan; this stores all of my photos - whether coming in from Google Photos (Uncompressed) on my phone, GoPro, etc. as well as pretty much any sort of documents - everything goes straight to Drive. Anything I deem sensitive I throw in an encrypted volume which is then synced.
As I run macOS, I use TimeMachine for Backups - I travel with a 500GB portable SSD and store TimeMachine on there regularly. This doesn't include GoogleDrive, or any other data.
If I'm traveling somewhere, I keep my drive and laptop separate in-case one is lost.
If my computer ever fails, is stolen, etc. then I should be able to purchase a new one, restore with TimeMachine, and then camp out in an area with fast internet to restore anything on GoogleDrive I'd like, and should be able to start working again immediately.
I know I have a single point of failure with only one TimeMachine backup; I'd like to improve that. However it's also not catastrophic if it's lost; just a pain in the butt as it'd take me time to get my environment back to the way I like it.
Recently with the stories of Google locking out their users - I'd like to setup a routine of storing 'Google Takeout' on some drives and throw those in storage as I know I have a lot of information in there.