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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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Does anyone else arrange their data in a way that protects against the inevitability of a windows install failing?? (alien.top)

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I f*cking hate windows(love/ hate abusive relationship for sure). All my installs fail or get corrupted. No matter how careful i am.

I keep nothing on the C: drive. All my data on separate drives. I backup my windows drive monthly in fear that my PC might decide to brick itself after a bad update or faulty shutdown.

As I type this,,,my desktop no longer booting and its been "attempting to repair windows" for 3hrs now. Good thing i made a backup on a separate drive 2 months ago, lol.

Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??

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

I use cloud storage for most of my documents. My NAS runs a daily job to pull down any updates. Once a month it encrypts everything and sends it up to B2. I definitely have room for improvement there and need to look at moving to daily differentials or incrementals. I'm also probably moving to glacier, unless B2 comes up with something comparable.

The only thing I do locally is video editing, because pushing lots of 4K over my 300/300 FIOS connection is an exercise in extreme patience. But once I'm done, I back that up to the NAS. From there a separate job encrypts and backs it up to B2.

So if my Windows drive got obliterated today, I wouldn't lose anything worth saving. I'd just have to deal with a reinstall.