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Re: Ask HN: How do you Backup your Personal Files?

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Post by magic5227 »

Just be careful those of you using sync too much, I've definitely seen people sync across deletes and other errors.

I personally backup about 1tb of home movies, photos, music etc. I keep 1 local HD + crashplan + crashplan remote in a friends house + Google Drive for docs I use daily. I also keep an offline drive just in case an error is replicated across my live drives.

I also used to use BackBlaze but dropped them, they play tricks to get out of storing a lot of content for too long

Re: Ask HN: How do you Backup your Personal Files?

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Post by kittxkat »

andrewaylett wrote: post #30
mhenr18 wrote: post #20

I just keep everything I care about in my Dropbox. I use enough machines on a day-to-day basis that this leaves me with a decent local redundancy, and having it all on Dropbox means that I'll have access to it even if all of my machines go down at once.

I fear Dropbox may be more like RAID than like backup: what happens when a file is deleted, causing it to be removed from all of your redundant machines?

Also if one machine is not updated (due to no network, for example), the file still exists there.

Re: Ask HN: How do you Backup your Personal Files?

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Post by redacted »

magic5227 wrote: post #51

Just be careful those of you using sync too much, I've definitely seen people sync across deletes and other errors. I personally backup about 1tb of home movies, photos, music etc. I keep 1 local HD + crashplan + crashplan remote in a friends house + Google Drive for docs I use daily. I also keep an offline drive just in case an error is replicated across my live drives. I also used to use BackBlaze but dropped them,…

Can you expand on the 'Backblaze plays tricks' comment? I am current user and am curious.

Re: Ask HN: How do you Backup your Personal Files?

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Post by devb0x »

pigboy wrote: post #12

I'm finding I generate very few "personal files" these days, compared with, say, ten years ago. Most personal files are produced/archived with Google Docs. Yes, that is scary. I also have 100 GB or so of archived photographs and videos that I back up with a mixture of Ubuntu One (videos and assorted files from 10 years ago) and Rackspace Cloudfiles (photos). I wrote my own Python scripts for backing up and verifying…

I've also been working on less files locally. Everything is sitting in Google docs. Or worse, I've mailed it to gmail and it sits there unread.

I rsync between my two nix boxes. My wife's Win box I do every now and again, mostly video and pictures.

Drop box for scripts I need across the nix boxes.

And I do a manual copy to an external, my folder structure is the same on all boxes but I like to watch this one.

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