Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 hours agoI 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.
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.
Psst, you missed the point and need to re-read the thread.
So you do remember that you have several frequently-used spreadsheets.
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
If the spreadsheet is important it sounds like it would be part of the 4 GB that was backed up.