Comment on How long do you keep your backups?
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoA back up on the same drive as the original isn’t a backup. It’s a waste of space, and a stupid idea.
It’s a backup that helps against software errors, but not against drive failures. Depending on what you want to achieve, it’s a perfectly valid strategy.
confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I generally have Operating System backups that are stored on the same drive. Those backups are immediately copied to 3 different devices, my computer and two other drives
The backup on the local drive is useful for when I’m tinkering, making adjustments, adding or removing stuff. Restoring from that local backup is far more convenient than using the remote backups
I don’t use anything with a database so all my static media files and wiki’s don’t go to the local backup. I handle them separately but they are still spread across the 3 other devices in my network