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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)

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

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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 not only follow it, I exceed it for the important things like my tax records, pictures and serial numbers of my valuables, etc.

Live copy on my Linux box
Automatic cloud backup onto Google Drive
Manual sync onto Onedrive via rclone
Raspberry Pi on my network with external hard drives attached to it, manually updated via rsync
Hard drives I keep in a safe deposit box at a local bank. These are updated a couple of times a year
Encrypted archives I keep on my phone and iPad. These are also updated a couple of times a year

Basically, the only way I'm losing all those files is if nuclear war breaks out. If that happens, I'm going to have more pressing issues to worry about than my files being safe.