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For anyone who's too lazy/dumb to do the above, just buy a couple portable Hard Drives on amazon. For ~$110, you can get a 4TB drive that fits in your pocket. I
by whack 10y ago
For anyone who's too lazy/dumb to do the above, just buy a couple portable Hard Drives on amazon. For ~$110, you can get a 4TB drive that fits in your pocket. I buy a new one every couple years when the previous one has filled up, which automatically ensures that I have more than enough older drives lying around to back up anything I care about. No power needed, no OS maintenance, no booting up, no spinning fans, immediate data transfers over USB 3.0, and oh, did I mention you can carry it in your pocket.
- ashark 10y agoYou'd want to couple this with some ability to check data integrity and you'd still need an offsite backup of some kind—plus you'll need a third copy anyway to recover if your primary fails and you plug the cold backup drive in only to find it's dead, which isn't unlikely enough not to worry about, or one or more files are corrupt, or whatever. Some inexpensive cloud storage service or a second (ideally different brand) cheap external stored elsewhere would do, though the latter's really inconvenient.