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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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You can only keep one directory of your storage. What folder do you pick? (alien.top)

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Not the top level directory, obviously.

For me, it would be my Camera directory. Worst case scenario would be to part ways with all the photos and videos I took for 15+ years, including the digital versions of a few hundred objects.

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

The user profile directory? Almost everything is in there somewhere.

Not that it matters much. If the PSU went out and took everything with it i'd only lose a few hours work.

It'd be annoying but i'd probably be a lot more annoyed with having to replace the hardware.

It'd only take a few hours to restore from backup but it'd take several days to get a similar machine.

Realistically if this thing goes out i'm just going to spin it up in a VM on one of the other machines I have on hand until I can find a suitable upgrade to replace it with rather than trying to put it back like it was as it's long overdue to be replaced anyway.