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This is from 2019, not that the advice ever goes out of date. It's crazy how the seemingly easiest most basic security/backup advice is so easy to give, and so
by blakesterz 5y ago
This is from 2019, not that the advice ever goes out of date.
It's crazy how the seemingly easiest most basic security/backup advice is so easy to give, and so hard to actually do. 3-2-1, so easy to teach and remember! In reality, at any kind of scale, not so easy to do.
I am constantly reminded just how hard every aspect of security really is to do. Even for the little/basic stuff.
- philips 5y agoFor local documents I find it way easier than cloud stuff. 1. Local disk 2. Time machine ssd 3. Backblaze backup agent For cloud stuff the services make it so hard. I have been working on a service off and on to backup Google photos to an SD card and then mail it to folks. And the amount of limitations, rate limiting, and random errors out of Google's API can be frustrating.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoTry Google Takeout.
- philips 5y agoIt isn't automated. And in the case of the thing I am building I can't help other people because you can't delegate the creation of a takeout either.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> you can't delegate the creation of a takeout either. Not through Google's APIs. But you can, through adversarial interoperability.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSorry?
- ghaff 5y agoAnd you can basically just as easily backup to two Time Machine drives for just a little extra piece of mind. Not sure it makes sense to use an SSD for that application though.
- deckard1 5y agoThe difficulty of 3-2-1 increases as your data size goes up. For me, the only sane thing to do is partitioning. My first group would be data that if I were to lose it would cause great pain. I keep the size of this group as small as possible. A few hundred megs or less. You have a live copy, a backup on a USB thumb stick or drive, and a copy you email someone or snail mail a USB drive. It's simple to deal with. It has to be, because it's critical. My second group is data that is important but not a serious threat to me. Photos and videos, mostly. This second group is where the headache starts and logistics, cost, and time become an issue. Offsite backup is either running to the bank deposit box (time consuming), or upload to cloud (also time consuming, and expensive). Containing the bit rot becomes a futile exercise. Especially considering most people aren't running ECC RAM and end-to-end ZFS with redundancy (for recovery) requires significant expertise and time. Parchive files are the best bet for most people. Finally, my third group. I have a NAS with a simple mirrored ZFS setup. Two huge drives. I'll probably add a 3rd drive for added redundancy. There is no backup. This data I don't care that much about. I'd hate to lose it. But I'd hate backing it up much more. I don't live for my data, my data lives for me. You have to ruthlessly prune data that you care to keep. Just like the burden of owning a boat or an overly large house, there is a burden to too much data you care about. The mistake a lot of people make is treating all data the same. Then they end up with terabytes of data of unequal importance and get sloppy protecting the tiny amount of data that truly matters.
- jrootabega 5y agoIf lizards can voluntarily make their tail fall off to escape predators, you can survive losing your music backups!