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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Coping with Data Loss (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is more just a poor me/venting type post. This past week I was locked out of my iCloud and lost the last 2 plus years of pictures. Once I can regain access to my account I will still have some of them, I'm grateful for that but I could kick myself for not backing up the last photos. I'm a busy mom and it was always something I had on my to do list but I never got around to. I'm sick, anxious and can't sleep. This has happened before and I eventually was able to cope and move on but it's so hard. I have 3 children so all these memories are lost. I'm lucky I upload almost daily on facebook so I still have many, many photos there. This will never happen again. What do you recommend I do with my new photos and what's left? Of course I will update daily/weekly to icloud but I would prefer an outside source as well.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, as others said, ideally, follow the 3-2-1 backup rule: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/. An external drive plus some other cloud storage like Backblaze Personal or iDrive.