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What will you do if there is a fire and you lose your laptop and the external hard disk?
by madiator 4y ago
What will you do if there is a fire and you lose your laptop and the external hard disk?
- hef19898 4y agoLaw of propability: I had zero dataloses due to fire, some data loss due to loosing a thumb drive backup and some data losses due to cloud storage shennenigans.
- madiator 4y agoHmm. I highly recommend a three way redundancy as others have mentioned. Put a copy in the cloud or store your harddisks somewhere else.
- hef19898 4y agoYou are right, a cloud storage would make things a tad saver. Personally, I made a point in not putting anything in the cloud, especially none of the big providers, since I value my privacy and just don't trust any o those companies.
- capableweb 4y agoCreate a new backup from the cloud provider one. Vice-versa if the cloud provider backup gets lost. Chances of loosing both at the same are minuscule.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoA photo book doesn't sound much better for that either.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Pxtl 4y agoI do both, personally. Have everything on my HD and on the Google cloud. That seems like an appropriate level of redundancy.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoHave a backup somewhere else, of course.
- brycewray 4y agoThat’s why to use the 3-2-1 method[0]. [0]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
- retrac 4y agoFor the really important digital stuff (almost 30 years of family digital photography and video and some paperwork) I have a rotating backup schedule. Two of the drives in the rotation stay at my mother's place. Nothing fancy and it's mostly when I can bother to remember. About once a year or so. Still, some peace of mind.