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> anything worth keeping or working on was stored in free-tier Dropbox That's great that you have 5GB (or less) of backup-worthy data. For anyone else like yo
by oarsinsync 6y ago
> anything worth keeping or working on was stored in free-tier Dropbox
That's great that you have 5GB (or less) of backup-worthy data.
For anyone else like you, that's the simple and happy solution that solves the problem well enough, and you're done.
What about if you have more than 5GB? What about if you have privacy concerns? What if your offsite backup is an offline backup and you can't access it due to a pandemic restricting access and travel?
All of the above impacted me and my ability to keep my backups going, and I've had to think about how to rebuild my backup strategy, as I've lost access to the remote site where my offline backup disks are stored.
Doing small backups is easy if you just want another copy somewhere else.
Doing bigger backups on a long term sustainable basis for large amounts of data with privacy requirements is less easy.
Anyway, you deserve a cookie for having done a backup at all. You're doing better than many.