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I have used local drives for my data for decades. I have data since 1995. Nowadays I also have a remote offline backup somewhere. It seems to work for me so far

• justinclift 3y ago
  With your setup, is that having your data on a single local drive at any time, or was it generally copied onto a few? aka "making sure you're not hosed if a drive goes bad"
  • janwillemb 3y ago
    It started with floppy disks in a large box. They actually went bad quite often. From the moment we had a 20MB hard disk[1] for about €400 all went on that hard disk, I think we made copies on the floppy disks just in case (not sure though). It was not important: private stuff, school stuff, programming for fun. After I got a windows computer, I started hoarding stuff on the harddrive. I don't think I bothered to make copies. When I started doing paid stuff, I bought an external drive for backups. Have been doing that since, in various configurations. My configuration is now: all computers in the house backup to a central server in the house. I rsync to an external HD from that server every now and then. The external HD is stored on a different location. I have realized that the data is the most vulnerable when I am doing the backup. If the house goes up in flames at that moment, I loose everything. I should get a second HD to prevent that. [1] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/47582/Atari-SH205-External-Hard-Disk-Drive/ https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/47582/Atari-SH205-Ex...