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You don’t back up the data from your laptop to external media? :S
by codetrotter 2y ago
You don’t back up the data from your laptop to external media? :S
- grep_name 2y agoNot the GP but for me personally, no, never. I only sync a couple of text files which I update and reference regularly enough to need them to be synced across machines constantly. I don't really understand HN's seeming aversion to having a headless server that handles centralized tasks like downloading, storing, and serving files. It's a great model for personal computing with a ton of upsides. As far as I'm concerned all storage on my laptop is totally disposable, and I should be able to wipe and reinstall everything quickly without loss of important data.
- mpweiher 2y agoI back up the data on my laptop daily to rotating backup disks + there's a local server for git and some other stuff. So yeah, storage on my laptop is disposable. Which I test whenever I get a new one: restore from backup. Works.
- fragmede 2y agoWhere to? Some sort of server? where you could run some sort of software that would organizeand catalogue your files in a more readily usable format than digging into a laptop backup archive?
- codetrotter 2y agoDepends on your setup. Usually the easiest thing to do is to have an external drive that you connect with USB and backup the files to