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Ask HN: What is the best way to backup an external HDD to the cloud?
I have a couple of external HDDs with a ton of raw audio data on them (I used to produce music full time). It occurred to me the other day that if these drives die I have no backups. I would like to archive these into a cloud storage service so I can rest easy. What's the best way?
- fmeyer 9y agoI had to come up with a solution to back up my Lightroom catalogs and raw archive hard drives. I dump an image of each and upload it to s3 and gdrive. Pretty manual, but I do it once per year or so. I choose to dump an image against i.e tar.bz because I can rely on the fs checksum in case of data degradation.
- afro88 9y agoGood idea. This will work for me because I'm just backing up what are essentially archives. Thanks!
- bartvk 9y agoMight help your responses if you'd mention how much data we're talking about ;) Without knowing that, I'd say BackBlaze. Just be sure to connect them once a month. Alternatively, get a Synology with enough disk space, then put it at a friend's house.
- PaulHoule 9y agoI like this https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/