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We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Anything I have that is super important is just uploaded to a server with backups turned on. Becomes 100%, not my problem anymore.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Until the backups don’t work.

    Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.

    Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Not your problem... until the hosting provider publishes a press release about some recent fire or flooding in the data center that "only impacted less than 1% of our customers"... and you turn out to be among them.

    For "super important" stuff, I keep closer to 10 copies spread around in different places. Normal stuff is 321, and everything else is temporary.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    eh, I've never hit that issue but I also have a copy of everything locally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I have. Both server and backup lost, and all I got was a complimentary 1 free month. Not a fun time uploading everything again from the single local copy.

    Now something similar is going on with Google for Business, where they've switched from "unlimited storage" to "actually, $300/10TB/month". Like that's going to happen (there are $100/100TB/month bare metal out there), but now I have to decide what to delete, what to keep, and what to downgrade from 321, to "temporary" single copy.

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