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> 12 TB HDD ... This is not home market, Indeed. The home directory on my PC at home has 80GB of files stored. Most of it is just there out of laziness. About

by throwaway201103 6y ago

> 12 TB HDD ... This is not home market, Indeed. The home directory on my PC at home has 80GB of files stored. Most of it is just there out of laziness. About the only thing I try to keep backups of are my tax returns. What do people have on a home machine that needs enterprise-grade backups? You might say photos and videos. I guess that's a personal thing; I realized a long time ago that I never spent any time actually looking at any of the pictures I took, so I stopped taking them.

UMetaGOMS 6y ago
100% agree. I have a NAS for photos and media, plus a big USB HDD for ZFS snapshots of my machines - but all of this is homelab tinkering, not an actual backup strategy. I realized in the last year or so that the only digital media I have which I would be genuinely sad to lose were wedding photos - so I saved those to 3 different cloud providers, made a Blu-ray copy, and a copy on the NAS. If I lose all of that in some tragedy, chances are I've got bigger things to worry about.
tomcam 6y ago
> I realized a long time ago that I never spent any time actually looking at any of the pictures I took, so I stopped taking them. That is a completely logical take. However, I sort of think of it as a posterity move. Although my kids might not particularly want to see pictures of themselves, their great grand children—or beyond—might love it. I would pay a pretty penny to see home movies of my grandparents, whom I never knew.
y04nn 6y ago
Photos, videos, music, but also current laptop backups, servers/VMs backups, current and past phones backups and HDD images of past computers hard drives (to be done), digitized family videos and photos (also to be done). It adds up quite fast. And being able to have put everything on a tape every year with a label on it would give me some peace of mind, even more if I place 2 of them on different location.

UMetaGOMS 6y ago

100% agree. I have a NAS for photos and media, plus a big USB HDD for ZFS snapshots of my machines - but all of this is homelab tinkering, not an actual backup strategy. I realized in the last year or so that the only digital media I have which I would be genuinely sad to lose were wedding photos - so I saved those to 3 different cloud providers, made a Blu-ray copy, and a copy on the NAS. If I lose all of that in some tragedy, chances are I've got bigger things to worry about.

tomcam 6y ago

> I realized a long time ago that I never spent any time actually looking at any of the pictures I took, so I stopped taking them. That is a completely logical take. However, I sort of think of it as a posterity move. Although my kids might not particularly want to see pictures of themselves, their great grand children—or beyond—might love it. I would pay a pretty penny to see home movies of my grandparents, whom I never knew.

y04nn 6y ago

Photos, videos, music, but also current laptop backups, servers/VMs backups, current and past phones backups and HDD images of past computers hard drives (to be done), digitized family videos and photos (also to be done). It adds up quite fast. And being able to have put everything on a tape every year with a label on it would give me some peace of mind, even more if I place 2 of them on different location.