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The problem is having a reliable and secure backup system. - Carrying an extra HDD with me is not feasible. It weighs extra, and if my luggage gets lost they b

The problem is having a reliable and secure backup system. - Carrying an extra HDD with me is not feasible. It weighs extra, and if my luggage gets lost they both get lost and we are back to 0 copies left. - I have copies of copyrighted material that I’ve bought. I’m not gonna sync that to the server I rent because they might mistake it for piracy. - My computer at home has less storage, so I can’t sync to it while traveling because there is not enough space left at home. I bought the 5 TiB HDD while traveling. - I think it’s pretty darn silly that electronics are so unreliable, that having one HDD is not enough. It bothers me a great bit in fact. - I’m not gonna put my files in the cloud either. - Sync problems are a PITA to resolve. - A lot of places that I go, internet is slow and unreliable. In many cases if I were to ZFS send a snapshot of my HDD over the internet with a couple GiB of new data it would likely lose the connection mid transfer and I’d have to retry over and over and over and I just don’t have time nor energy for that. So it’s not as easy as you make it out to be.

Dalewyn 3y ago
>- Carrying an extra HDD with me is not feasible. It weighs extra, and if my luggage gets lost they both get lost and we are back to 0 copies left. Why are you not keeping a copy at, say, home? Even if it gets old between backups, having some data is better than complete data loss. >- I have copies of copyrighted material that I’ve bought. I’m not gonna sync that to the server I rent because they might mistake it for piracy. Why are you backing up to a location not under your ownership? >- My computer at home has less storage, so I can’t sync to it while traveling because there is not enough space left at home. I bought the 5 TiB HDD while traveling. You have monies and time to rent a server, buy a huge HDD on the road, procure gadgets, but none for basic upkeep back home? >- I think it’s pretty darn silly that electronics are so unreliable, that having one HDD is not enough. It bothers me a great bit in fact. The fickle nature of electronics has nothing to do with this. If something is important to you, you keep multiple copies in case one gets destroyed. Because one day, some deity in the sky is going to decide you will suffer today. >- I’m not gonna put my files in the cloud either. See response to backing up to a rented server. >- Sync problems are a PITA to resolve. There are solutions that could help you, because many people have walked that path. >- A lot of places that I go, internet is slow and unreliable. In many cases if I were to ZFS send a snapshot of my HDD over the internet with a couple GiB of new data it would likely lose the connection mid transfer and I’d have to retry over and over and over and I just don’t have time nor energy for that. If you accrue so much data while on the road that a proper backup scheme is impractical, you absolutely should still duplicate it on another HDD to at least reduce the risk of data loss. Backing up is ultimately a question of whether the time lost recovering from data loss is more expensive than implementing and performing a backup scheme. It's a question of motivation, not difficulty.

Dalewyn 3y ago

>- Carrying an extra HDD with me is not feasible. It weighs extra, and if my luggage gets lost they both get lost and we are back to 0 copies left. Why are you not keeping a copy at, say, home? Even if it gets old between backups, having some data is better than complete data loss. >- I have copies of copyrighted material that I’ve bought. I’m not gonna sync that to the server I rent because they might mistake it for piracy. Why are you backing up to a location not under your ownership? >- My computer at home has less storage, so I can’t sync to it while traveling because there is not enough space left at home. I bought the 5 TiB HDD while traveling. You have monies and time to rent a server, buy a huge HDD on the road, procure gadgets, but none for basic upkeep back home? >- I think it’s pretty darn silly that electronics are so unreliable, that having one HDD is not enough. It bothers me a great bit in fact. The fickle nature of electronics has nothing to do with this. If something is important to you, you keep multiple copies in case one gets destroyed. Because one day, some deity in the sky is going to decide you will suffer today. >- I’m not gonna put my files in the cloud either. See response to backing up to a rented server. >- Sync problems are a PITA to resolve. There are solutions that could help you, because many people have walked that path. >- A lot of places that I go, internet is slow and unreliable. In many cases if I were to ZFS send a snapshot of my HDD over the internet with a couple GiB of new data it would likely lose the connection mid transfer and I’d have to retry over and over and over and I just don’t have time nor energy for that. If you accrue so much data while on the road that a proper backup scheme is impractical, you absolutely should still duplicate it on another HDD to at least reduce the risk of data loss. Backing up is ultimately a question of whether the time lost recovering from data loss is more expensive than implementing and performing a backup scheme. It's a question of motivation, not difficulty.