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Less than 1GB is pretty easy. Copy-1. Compress a copy and email it to your self. Copy-2. Burn to a DVDR and keep it on your shelf. Copy-3. On a USB stick and
by stevezsa8 4y ago
Less than 1GB is pretty easy.
Copy-1. Compress a copy and email it to your self.
Copy-2. Burn to a DVDR and keep it on your shelf.
Copy-3. On a USB stick and store where you keep your passport.
Copy-4. On your rolling backups (you have backups right?...).
Copy-5&6. An extra DVDR and USB stick kept off-site (family/friend). Feel free to Encrypt it.
Copy-7. Your rolling backups that you keep off-site. Encrypted.
To be honest, since you already should have a good backup strategy, the cost should be like $5 for a couple USB sticks and DVDrs.
- im3w1l 4y agoYeah I think there is a lot to a strategy this simple. In the future there will be a big market for getting data from old media, and by picking normie-tech you will be able to tap into that. I might swap DVD-r for HDD (with cables to connect to either usb or sata), but either would probably be fine. 30 years is not that long. 1gb is not that much. They main concern is protecting yourself from being unlucky. "what if there is a fire" "what if I forget my password / get banned" "what if I drop my backups on the marble floor" "what if I die".
- stevezsa8 4y agoI think off-site backups are the way to go regarding the fire scenario. Having a print out of where your financial assets are located is a good first step for the scenario you die. This way your next of kin can track them down. You should save your passwords in an encrypted file that gets backuped. I've not got a good solution for if your email provider bans you.