I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup
I have doubles of the data. Some of 'em. That way I know I have a pristine one in backup. Then I can use it, it gets corrupted, I don’t care.
Actually, I have triples of the W2s. I have triples, right? If I don’t, the other stuff’s not true.
See, the W2s the one I have triples of. Oh, no, actually, I also have triples of the kids photos, too. But just those two. And your dad and I are the same age, and I’m rich and I have triples of the W2s and the kids photos.
Triples makes it safe.
Triples is best.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Do you have logs or software that keeps track of what you need to redownload? A big stress for me with that method is remembering or keeping track of what is lost when I and software can’t even see the filesystem anymore.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
If you can’t remember what you lost, did you really need it to begin with?
Unless it’s personal memories of course.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 17 hours ago
I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it off the many I have for different purposes.
Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If the spreadsheet is important it sounds like it would be part of the 4 GB that was backed up.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
The key here being that you actually remember the file exists, because it’s important. Some other random spreadsheet you don’t even remember exists because you haven’t needed it since forever is probably not all that important to backup.
If you loose something without ever realizing you lost it, it was not important so there would be no reason to make a backup.
frongt@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
So you do remember that you have several frequently-used spreadsheets.
cenzorrll@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.
three@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Psst, you missed the point and need to re-read the thread.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
For me, I have a bad memory. I might remember a childhood movie (a nickname I give to special Linux ISOs) that I hadn’t even thought of for 10 years and track down a copy, sometimes excavating obscure sources, and that may be hours of one-time inspiration and work repeated many times over. Having a complete list is a good helper, but a full backup of course is best.
kurotora@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
In my case, for Linux ISOs, is only needed to login in my usual private trackers and re-download my leeched torrents. For more niche content, like old school TV shows in local language, I would rely in the community. For even more niche content, like tankoubons only available at the time on DD services, I have a specific job but also relying in the same back up provider that I’m using for personal data.
Also, as it’s important to remind to everyone, you must encrypt your backup no matter where you store it.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
My *arrstack DBs are part of my backed up portion, so they’ll remember what I have downloaded in my non-backed up portion.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That’s a great point.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
servarr* and jellyfin are managing my movies and tv-shows
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Set up a job to write the file names of everything in your file system to a text file and make sure that text file gets backed up. I did that on my Unraid server for years in lieu of fully backing up the whole array.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
That should be part of the backup configuration. You select in the backup tool of choice what you backup. When you poose your array then you download that stuff again?