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> I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server". I hope you're not gonna regret "moving" backups rather than "copyi
by capableweb 5y ago
> I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server".
I hope you're not gonna regret "moving" backups rather than "copying". I made that mistake once, and only once. Now I only copy my backups if there is some better alternative, while keeping the "worse" one unless I did it for security reasons.
- pmlnr 5y agoThere are always pros and cons to everything. Having reasonably personal and/or sensitive backups and archives on the same machine where I have web, email, and messaging services made me feel growingly uneasy. I also prefer not to use energy when not needed, meaning offline is a better thing for my world view. It is true that offline archiving is a mess: fire and waterproof safety boxes, reliable hardware, multiple copies, etc. plus I lose geographically duplicated datasets, which is something I haven't given up on - I just couldn't figure it out how to do it yet :)
- DarylZero 5y agoI bought an 8TB hard drive for sole purpose of keeping offsite backups at my parents' house, in case of fire. Been over a year, drive has some backup data on it, but still haven't brought the drive over there. I should have gone with my original idea, to install a server in their house and transfer over the internet.