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Truly amazing, yes. Someday soon our ability to create storage media will outstrip our ability to record pornography to it. And yet there's still lots of peopl

• Ecco 3y ago
  Very good point. I’m fully guilty of not backing things up enough (to some extent). The main reason that’s holding me back is not the price of storage itself, but the combination of either it’s cheap but pretty annoying to manage (e.g buying raw disks and handling backup myself), or it’s convenient but expensive (e.g. Google Photos or iCloud, for personal photos). I’ve yet to find a convenient DIY alternative.
  • simonblack 3y ago
    it’s cheap but pretty annoying to manage (e.g buying raw disks and handling backup myself) Back-ups are easy. It's just a matter of a script and scheduling to back all your stuff up at least daily, in the wee hours of the morning. More 'out of sight, out of mind' is the periodic checking of those backups to make sure you can restore from them. Which is why I do raw file backups of directories: no compression, no weird filesystems. Any single file is just as accessible off the backup disks as the original file on it's "original" disk.