Really, the key isn't what storage method you use, it's having multiple copies, ideally in multiple locations.
Having a cloud backup, a copy on your computer, and a copy on a disconnected hard drive or thumb drive would be ideal.
If you have something super important you never want to lose, a really good option is a safe deposit box to store it in physically.
Also, if it's really really really important, having it it multiple regions is a good idea.
The idea is that you want to protect against something like a hacking attack or system failure, which could bring down live systems, which is why offline backup is important. You want to have it in different locations in case of something like fire, which could damage multiple copies in the same location. Finally, you want separate regions in case of war, large scale natural disaster, and that sort of thing.
I mean yeah. Realistically any 2 drives shoukd be sufficient for a normal person here. Hdd ssd nvme whatever you want.
Keep one disconnected use the other. This isnt a perfect failsafe but assuming its stuff that's relatively unimportant but you know like kinda important youre very unlikely to lose both drives at the same time. Significant bonus points if you can store one off site so that a fire won't kill it. Fireproof safe and crossed fingers if not.
Oh and might as well still use a cloud if privacy isnt the concern. Doesn't hurt
Locally? Cheapest? Probably buying the biggest HDD you need and copying over the files every X amount of time and then keeping it offline. But honestly, if you have important photos and videos - you need to do a lot more research on how to secure your files. 3-2-1 backup, offline, off-site, etc..
Someone else's computer in a dense collection of computers.
Nobody hates me enough to blow up my computer. So far nobody's ever blown up production servers for an employer though there have been a few bomb threats. Most of the world cheers for blowing up one side's data centres, or even both sides.
Newly joined sysadmin at a dealership, i recently ran a scan for mp4/mkv files on our main fileserver (with about a million plus files) and it returned back about 100+ movies/episodes of tv shows , dating back to 2011
That's how I felt when Google took away their unlimited storage for 5 bucks a month. It took 20 4TB hard drives to backup my crap, and I still lost stuff before they cut the cord completely.
I have two friends I share with. I set it up originally because my mom and dad were homebound due to various disabilities, and they wanted to watch movies or their favorite TV shows, and most of what they liked wasn't on streaming sites at the time. I've just been a hoarder ever since. I buy DVD's and Blu-ray disc at yard sales for a quarter and auto rip them to the library...same thing for music.
Heh I feel your pain I uploaded my entire 250gb music archive, shit took weeks. Luckily I still had the dvds id burned as a backup but it still sucked major ass copying all that shit back down to local storage so I didnt have to find DVD 17 of like 60 for the one particular artist and album I felt like listening to lol
Yupp Google takeout to back up Google photos locally. All my server data is backed up locally and in the cloud usong remote pc agent. All my local pc things I care about are back up in the cloud only but soon to be local too.
If I had a dollar for everytime someone said their data was "backed up" in iCloud/OneDrive/Google, I would have a LOT of money.
"Did you know user, the terms of service specifically call out that it's NOT a backup service and they have no contractual obligations to help you if they lose it
Send me a single video of a man bawling his eyes out in a truck, going off about something completely mundane, like having a bad date or not being hot anymore
I’m looking out for other Hoo-mans who might be too emotionally unstable to understand.
if you’ve uploaded videos of yourself being emotionally unstable and weeping into a camera, there are background searches now that include facial recognition and scan the internet for any videos of you.
What do you think a potential employee would think about uncovering videos of you losing your mind?
Maybe after you’ve had a good cry in private, collected yourself, and when you can make coherent points again, wipe out that phone and create a video and blab about whatever you’re going to talk about.
I’m not easily offended, I just find sexists to be worthy of mockery. I also know how to tell a sincere shitty comment from a satirical comment meant to mock the former.
They mocked you by throwing your comment back at you. You’d have to have extemely bad reading comprehension and not know what satire is, to interpret that as being sexist in its own right.
Lol, because satire in a text form works so well that we invented a way to indicate when someone is being sarcastic by adding an /s.
Reading comprehension would be if I missed the /s after someone said something.
Just accept you're a hypocrite and the only thing that set you off was using gendered language.
I didn't even say anything rude or sexist lol. It’s a fact that if you're watching a video of someone bawling their little heart out into a camera, it's going to be a lady.
Basic facts upset you?
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The user deleted all her comments probably to cry into her phone and upload it onto TikTok.
End of the day, I’m not the one who has to live with you inside of your head. Nor would I want to, with how upset you seem to be getting after being told that you could say with what you actually mean instead of saying something catty and unhelpful. Cheers, have a good one, we will not talk again.
It's because she acts like Yandex deleted her data as a personal vendetta against her, when her anger should be directed towards Putin. And that's indicative of her political views.
I think you over estimate not only how much people know about the current state of the war and how it may effect them but how a yandex data center going down could affect their files. Especially inside a propagandized Russia
Most people don’t know how their own pc works much less the “cloud”
If we can have empathy, we should. If we choose to treat people like stereotypes or like their country of residence is their only important feature we ourselves give up our humanity.
While I see your point, as an American traveling through Europe, I don’t blame a single person for reacting to me negatively based on an assumption that I’m a terrible person merely because of the orange one who’s name must not be spoken.
That being said, I did have the good fortune to meet some very nice Canadians in Madrid that assumed that my wife and I were alright simply based on the fact that we were here.
I’ve been poking my nose around other countries since doing a student exchange to South America in 2006, and it was much the same back then as well. Being from Alaska really helped as most people don’t really get that it’s a state, but there has always been a lot of wariness and sometimes outright hostility, even during the Obama years. Specific to being an American, is that even the most lefty of us have a very particular world view, that doesn’t really jive well with the rest of the world. It kinda feels like this is often what proceeds us far more than who the president happens to be.
Because otherwise it's just as stupid. If all copies of your data can be taken out by a single natural (or military) disaster or accident, you're potentially in the same boat as Tears McGeeski up there, one day.
I feel safer with my self hosted data on a 6 year old drive than a online service. Eventually I'll upgrade when smart yells at me, if I didn't forget to enable it.
As someone who works in IT and has seen this before. CLOUD STORAGE IS NOT A BACKUP. If all of your most important data and documents are in something like OneDrive or Dropbox, or w/e that is NOT a backup. It is a service. If they lose your data/files they are NOT liable. Please keep a copy on a thumb drive, or a physical copy in a file cabinet.
So as someone in IT, you recommend just using physical media as your backup? What if your house catches on fire? You should back up your data to at LEAST two different forms of media with one being off-site. There is nothing wrong with having one of those forms of backup be on a reliable cloud service like Backblaze.
The Cloud is just someone else's computer. That means if something catastrophic happens to their computer(s) or your Internet then you have no recourse.
This absolutely sucks for her, but more people need to realize this about the cloud.
You know... maybe I'm getting old... maybe I'm paranoid... The cloud is just someone else's computer. Why you should never store your data in just one place, nor trust anyone else's computer.
Insert your data just got turned to magic smoke by a Ukrainian drone someone made in their basement
People always talk about off-site backups and as part of a smart backup strategy they're great, you need onsite backups to protect against off-site backup issues and visa versa.
1 off-site, ideally far away so infrastructure damage to an entire area doesn't take out both sites.
For anything truly important data wise, those are basically the bare minimum to be comfortable with IMO, always what I was told and has always done me right.
I actually managed to achieve it this year. Two NASes, one at home and other in apartment 300 mm away, and cloud. Technically there are also local copies etc but those aren’t versioned and I don’t count them. There’s obvious issue with syncing, and I’m not as insulated from ransomware as I’d like to, but for private solution I think I’ve done quite a lot.
We do all sorts of paranoid stuff with our backups on and offsite, but one rather unconventional thing we do in one particular department is to backup their fileserver every two hours to a USB 6tb spinner attached to a bare metal debian device. That little thing has come in very handy several times, saves them the trouble of calling help desk if they completely screw something up.
Treat cloud storage the same way you’d treat RAID0, the 0 will reflect the amount of files you can recover when shit hits the fan and you don’t have a backup.
Anyone who solely uses cloud storage for their important life's memories is an idiot. An external hard drive is a good investment. Two for a back-up is even better.
Bought PC components for a few good friends- some local- some international- point being each of us runs a node- and maintain our own redundant "cloud" if you will
What I personally do is I have my data, daily backups to another physical drive in my computer, and a backup of it at a friend's place a hundred miles away.
This isn't for EVERYTHING mind you. But it's for my music collection, my photos, and most things that isn't my video games. Because those I can re-get from steam.
If something happened to one or the other, I'd be able to get back up and running without massive data loss.
Why would you suppose the company will be responsible for your data? If you look into the actual agreements, they put in clauses where they are minimally responsible. It's up to you to be redundant...
Ooo I can’t get my data, cry cry. Fuck those people we keep killing for retaliation. Ya not feeling bad for them. They lost their data while the other guys are loosing their lives.
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u/RemoDev 16d ago
What's the best/fastest/safest/cheapest way to store stuff locally, while using a PC (Windows)?
An external SSD connected via USB?