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All your eggs in 1 basket is never good. Local hard drive + a cloud provider should give you like 99.999999% reliability
by brianwawok 3y ago
All your eggs in 1 basket is never good.
Local hard drive + a cloud provider should give you like 99.999999% reliability
- jlkuester7 3y ago> Local hard drive + a cloud provider This has been my general strategy for personal data. I have also been trying to figure out if there was a reasonable way to get long-term very-cold storage (e.g. backups of family pictures). Something that would last decades just sitting in a fire-box somewhere (reasonable temps, no moisture). Been considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC, but interested to know if anyone has other ideas...
- Filligree 3y agoDon't quote me on this, but Bluray is apparently supposed to be long-term stable. I haven't explored the claim.
- ryandrake 3y agoKey point is that the cloud provider version should not be your "main" version, it should be used for backup only. If it's not on your physical computer that you have direct access to, it's not -your- data anymore.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoI actually use three local hard drives in rotation plus a cloud provider to hopefully cover the "building catches on fire and I don't even have time grab a drive" scenario. Maybe a second cloud provider would also be good. I'm going to think about this.