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>... every year I buy a new HD... OK, but OP said: >It's really a pain to keep transferring your old backups every 2-5 years...
by jjulius 6y ago
>... every year I buy a new HD...
OK, but OP said:
>It's really a pain to keep transferring your old backups every 2-5 years...
- chrisseaton 6y agoBecause they're considering options like DVDs. With a new HD you can just copy it across in one step.
- jjulius 6y agoOP explicitly mentioned HDDs in their post; they do not want to be transferring data to a new HDD every year, or two years, or five years.
- chrisseaton 6y agoWell that's why I asked what I'm missing! It's just one command to copy from an old HD to the new HD? Takes me all of 30 mins once a year.
- webmobdev 6y agoYou have to save your important data in multiple mediums to keep it safe. This is in case one medium fails. Obviously, cost being a factor, optical disks is one of the mediums to be considered despite all its other downsides (slow transfer speed).
- tomcam 6y agoNot trying to be rude or sarcastic here: what is that command? Certainly in my experience on both macOS and windows, the default operating system GUI mass copy invariably poops out halfway through, with no explanation as to why. Maybe something like this? rsync --archive --acls --xattrs --checksum --vvv /src /dest
- pizza234 6y agoThe OP is mixing mediums with different characteristics. The DVD has a fixed size (say, 5.x GB), while hard disks are relatively open-ended. One can buy 10+ TB magnetic disks for a cheap price (less than 200$). If the OP really needs dozens of TBs of capacity every few year, they definitely don't fit in the home user market they are talking about.
- webmobdev 6y agoYes, I do use a mix of medium in case one medium fails.