Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud 3 days ago:
Everyone knows you don’t upgrade to a X.0 release. Got to wait for X.1 at least.
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 3 days ago:
How well does location tracking work underground?
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 5 days ago:
That’s great but can you ship to some more countries or stop actively blocking freight forwarding 😑
- Comment on Hell nah brah 1 week ago:
I don’t mind a call but I really appreciate the people who ask via message first!
- Comment on I created an instance for a specific community 1 week ago:
Only a single person on the instance needs to subscribe, then the instance with the community knows about it and will start pushing the content to that instance.
You’re on Lemmy.world, so it wouldn’t take long for someone to subscribe (if you’re the first person, just looking also pulls a handful of posts, but no further updates until someone subscribes).
- Comment on I created an instance for a specific community 1 week ago:
Might be talking about lemmy-federate.com?
You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won’t show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 1 week ago:
Wow, a lot of variation in this thread!
I get all my data to my server, then from there I have borgmatic do incremental backups to a backup drive on the same machine (nightly cronjob).
From there I use Rclone to get the encrypted borg backup to Backblaze B2 for cloud storage.
So for 3 2 1, my 3 copies are the original, the local backup, and the cloud backup.
My 2 media are local hard drives and cloud storage (I think it’s fair to consider this a different kind of media).
And my 1 offsite is the cloud backup.
Now I’m dumb and have a fear of screwing something up so I have also started burning M-Discs of my critical data (everything except TV/movie/music stuff I can redownload). Though this was a lot more expensive than I was expecting, because of aforementioned me being dumb I already screwed up two discs (they are write once). I’m also doing two copies of each disc.
Also I have photos/home videos additionally stored in ente, they are super important to me and I wanted a separated copy someone else is looking after.
- Comment on aww man here we goo... 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip, very helpful since I’m looking for MAX safety!
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 weeks ago:
Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 weeks ago:
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
What makes you say they are shorter life span? The 25GB and 100GB both have the same “several hundred years” claim.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I missed that post! Looks like the comment section would have answered a lot of my question.
In the end I have pulled the trigger and bought an M-Disc capable burner and a stack of M-Discs, so I’m gonna give that a go and see how it works out.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
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Sweet, thanks, I think that’s a good plan. I am thinking duplicate disks, one on site one off site. I do have a cloud backup, but if I die in a house fire then having the offsite disks is a much better solution than the random B2 bucket.
Thanks for the help 🙂
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Like this? pbtech.co.nz/…/Verbatim-43888-External-Slim-Blura…
That’s NZD by the way, conversion rates are terrible at the moment so about halve it for USD, seems in the price range you said.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s an interesting thought. They seem to come up to 100GB capacity, but the wikipedia page claims (with a [dubious] qualifier) that you need some sort of special higher power burning device to write to M-Disc.
I don’t have an optical drive at the moment. Would I just pick any rated for BDXL?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
You are the first person who has recommended SSD for cold storage. Everyone else (including what I’ve googled) says HDD for cold storage, just spin up every year or two and they will be fine. Can you point me at further reading?
Don’t worry, I’ll SMART check the drives each year as I update as required.
As for types of drives dying out soon, I can reassess the situation every 5 years when I do drive replacement. I would be confident 2.5" drives will still be readable in 5 years.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I have automated backups including to cloud, but I want a separated manual system that cannot get erased if I mess something up (accidentally sync a delete, lose encryption key, forget to pay cloud bill). I have 3 2 1 but it’s all automated and backups are eventually replaced, if it’s not a critical failure I won’t necessarily know I’ve lost something.
Basically, I specifically want cold storage, and not cloud. I will only add, not delete from it. And I don’t want it encrypted.
Based on other conversations I’m planning on using duel disks mirrored, zfs, annual updates and disk checks with disks rotated out every 5 years (unless failing/failed). Handling the need for layman retrival of data by including instructions with the hard drives.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I’ve decided I should have a small number of physical prints, as extra redundancy. I’m thinking I’ll print 100 each year to store with the hard drive backup.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
The printed photos are only there as an extra layer of redundancy in case everything else fails. It’s ok if they get discoloured a bit, it never put me off going through my grandparents’ suitcases of photos. Ideally the digital files survive, if not then at least there is something rather than nothing.
Is SSD really necessary? Everything I search up says SSDs have worse retention than HDD in cold storage. A couple TB of HDD is pretty cheap these days, and seems like a better cold storage option.
You can’t exactly make it fool-proof. Outside people will never know what you did to create your backup and what to do to access it. Who knows if the drives file system or file types are still readable after 20 years? Who knows if SATA and USB connectors are still around after that time?
Yes, so now I’m thinking a rotation cycle. About every 5 years replace the drives with new ones, copy over all data. If newer technology exists then I can move to that newer technology. This way I’m keeping it up to date as long as I can.
For example it is very likely that SATA will disappear within the next 10-15 years as hdds are becoming more and more an enterprise thing and consumers are switching to M.2 ssds.
Does this matter if I have a SATA->USB cable stored with it? Other than if USB A standards change or get abandoned for USB C, but that should be covered by the review every 5 years.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
So, I have a server that has a backup drive, automated backups, and replication to laptops as well as cloud storage in Backblaze B2. What I’m looking for is something completely separated from the automation that is a backup for if I screw up the automation, as well as a backup that a layman can access (i.e. no encryption, media that is usable by anyone). I have had some very bad experiences with flash drives but I am thinking a HDD with SATA->USB cable attached (I already have the cable).
From the other conversations in this thread mentioning many options, the hard drive option seems the best for my use case, but I’ve also been convinced of the benefit of printing out some physical photos as well, so my current plan is to get a big container, put a couple of mirrored hard drives in there (to validate against each other as protection against bit-rot), and print 100 photos each year to add to the container to have an extra layer of redundancy.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Haha like
spoilers for the three body problem series
at the the end of the third three body problem book where they need to write something that will last for millions of years so they carve a message in huge letters into the rock
But I’m a millennial so if you think I own a huge amount of land you would be wrong 😛
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I’ve done some photo books in the past. A lot of work though, I prefer the idea of printed photos. Plus if they are the only surviving photos, then it’s nice to have them in an easily scannable format.
I came across this container, where each of the smaller containers holds 100 photos. Seems like it could be a good option, one container per year with 100 photos in each. 12 years per box. Get say 6 of them to cover the rest of my life (one could probably cover my life to date, a lot less photos before I had kids), put in a larger container that also holds a couple of (mirrored) hard drives. One big time capsule.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Yes this seems to be the general theme. Main issue is sorting out a file system. I can use a self-repairing one, to recover from long term storage issues, but then it likely won’t work in Windows which it may need to if I want a layman to be able to access it. So still some refinement of the plan but it’s coming together.
I’ve also decided to print some physical photos, aiming for 100 per year, and will put everything in a container together. The physical photos are for in case the container is lost for decades and the drives die, then there will at least be something.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I am thinking of getting a couple of drives and cloning across both. Update both at the same time. I didn’t think of getting two drives at different times but that makes sense, thanks for the suggestion!
I am thinking printouts is a good idea too. I might get a big container, and keep a couple of mirrored drives as well as say 100 photos from each year. Every year I update the drives with additions and then print 100 photos from the previous year to add to the collection.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I have a cloud backup, so this isn’t about a critical loss of data. It’s about an accessible copy that isn’t encrypted and a layman could get the data off.
If my house burns down and I lose the copy, I can restore the data from the cloud backup (so long as I’m not in the house when it burns).
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I have such a document, but it’s not quite the same. I’m just as worried about my dumb ass losing the borg key and all data along with it…
I’m thinking a clearly labelled hard drive with instructions, rotating the hard drive with a new one every 5 years or so.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to sort through the 50k photos, and can’t print videos. I’m hoping in 10 or 20 years I’ll be able to feed it into AI to spit out all the best ones, then I’ll consider it.
We do have photos printed, but only a very small percentage of the total.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s an idea. It does seem like I’d need a lot of disks though. And I don’t actually have a disk reader or writer at all at the moment.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
Yeah after looking at the price of a drive, I agree it doesn’t seem necessary at the level of data I have.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather cold storage but am thinking of looking along these lines, ZFS or btrfs on a standard HDD that I add files on to once a year and replace the disk every few years.
I have a standard backup setup I just want something that is more point in time and not connected to all the automation, in case I automatically delete everything.