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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)

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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 1 year ago

For everything that is personal, such as photos, videos, file backups, etc, I follow 3-2-1.

I have a raid1 array with all my files, and any new files are pushed to aws S3 in a weekly basis. its weekly as i may have plenty of GB of photos and videos after a big trip and with my current internet speed 24 hrs may not be enough to upload everything :/

For cold storage stuff, aka everything until last year I also copy it at an old nas at my parents house that is only connected to power and network when i need to add the backups and 2-3 times per year otherwise.

It's also good to keep a raid aray protected with a surge protector and UPS.