Data Hoarder

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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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Where is the “offsite” that you keep a second copy? (alien.top)

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Those who keep another copy of their hard drive (or whatever other backup source) offsite, where is that? Your mommas house? A storage locker facility? At work?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I stash my second janky NAS with my family in another part of the country. I ask my sibling to keep it powered on every week or so then shut it down after a couple minutes. If my main data storage near the capital city goes kaput, I'd phone my sibling to bring me my entire NAS (all expenses paid) immediately. My main stash is in my office which is only 10' commute

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you do something important that you would need your backups immediately?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably nsfw linux isos