The Backup Thread

[Thad E Ginathom]

All my data on hdd/ssd. Backed up to two external drives, which I alternate, about once a week. I would like one to be off-site, but that hasn't happened for a while.

No cloud backup as such.

Most of my photography is carnatic classical concerts. I distribute the results to artists/organisers via pCloud. That's a form of backup too, although all the content is only 1920*1280. Worst case scenario: that's a heap better than nothing. And I don't think history will miss high-pixel originals!

(without making any photographic claims, it is a historical record, and I will take steps to try to ensure that it survives me, even if my personal digital life evaporates with me)

[g2]

All my data is saved on my HDD and I do 2 backups. 1 to another external HDD, 2 to Google Drive (have a Google One subscription)

All data is synced via Free Filesync (mirrored (one way sync) to 1 & 2) manually, once a week.

g2

[Bharat Varma]

As the title says, let's compile data backup strategies, systems, hardware and software etc. here.