I use an external hard drive
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otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
What do people use to have backups of their google drive content?
Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Dumb question,
If you have an external hard drive for your cloud backup data, why use a cloud service?
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
Accessible from anywhere and any device. Non-local backups in case of a fire at your house and such.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Makes sense, thank you
Gr0mit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Offsite is always a good idea in case of a disaster like fire.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Offsite? When I googled that it showed a team retreat planning website. How does that work?
hakobo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For any really important data, you should always have at least 3 copies. 1) Your working copy on your computer. 2) A local backup which could be an external hard drive, a NAS, another computer, or whatever. 3) An off-site backup. That could be a cloud service, a computer at a friend’s or family member’s house, an external hard drive in a safety deposit box, etc. The off-site backup is in case your house burns down or is robbed.
If it’s REALLY important, you may have even more than that. There’s also the issue of how often do you update the backups. A hard drive in a safety deposit box is hard to update compared to uploading to Google Drive which can be automatic, but the hard drive in the safety deposit box is more secure. So you have to weigh your pros and cons.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Can you give me an example of what really important data could look like?
Genuine question, I don’t work in IT or work with computers very often. I’m tech literate, but the most important thing I really have is my resume and even then I can redo it if I lost it.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do you have it plugged in all the time or do you periodically do a full transfer?
Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I do weekly backups. However, if I modify or add something really important I create a backup right at that time
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A regular portable hard drive?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use rclone and a backup script to periodically download my Google drive contents to a portable external hard drive
Getting6409@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Backblaze B2, which I’m pretty sure is a repackaged S3 provider, or you can just skip them and go directly to AWS S3; though, both aren’t drag and drop user friendly like onedrive or gdrive. But both work well if you invest a little time with something like rclone.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Backblaze B2 is S3 compatible but not built on S3. B2 is also considerably cheaper than S3, so it probably wouldn’t make sense if it was built on S3.
xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Correct, Backblaze is their own host and post on their blog often about their tech and processes. They’ve got a lot of good info on how they designed their server storage racks and stats on drive failures by brand etc
Getting6409@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks, I was wondering why the s3 prefixes were used. If my memory serves, b2 is especially better on the billing rates for retrieval, so a better choice if large disaster recovery is on your mind.
good_bot@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
OneDrive
MrOxiMoron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My devices 🤣
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Unfortunately I’ve read reports it’s actively syncing deletions to devices.
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Huh. A google service that keeps working, even after it’s supposed to. That’s new.