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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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The 3-2-1 rule (alien.top)

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I've always heard that you folks like to keep tons of backups of your stuff. I have also heard that there is this 3-2-1 rule about keeping you backups. My question is: do you follow it personally or is it something that people just tell you to follow?

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

I have 3:2:1 for my crucial data ( pictures of family and travels and digital documents like tax returns). Basically one main copy another copy on an old nas with shucked drives not connected to the internet and one cloud copy. It is worth it because I would hate hate to lose that data.

I have 2:1 for my media. Just a local copy . If the apartment goes up in flames or a freak lightning burns it down I will have to re-download it again or I will live without it and ghats fine. For a long time the media had no backup but just raid and snapshots to protect against hard-drive failures and dumb user errors.

It's all about your means and risk appetite.