![]() What I consider to be a good cloud backup and things that I don’t care about Although making a backup to a local hard drive is fairly easy and straightforward, cloud backups are way more complicated. I have tested multiple solutions and services over the past few years, and finally, I feel that I have found something that is going to stick around. In case any of that occurs, I need one more copy in the cloud. ![]() However, things happen! Disks fail, people rob, rivers flood, comets fall. Taking that into consideration I’ve realised that I may run out of storage on these hard drives very quickly, but for now they do the job. I am the happy owner of a superb Sony α7R III that shoots 80 megabyte ARW files. Currently I use two totally average external hard drives by Segate. It can be my computer’s hard drive, an external flash disk, NAS server or a RAID array. No matter what, I always store this collection on two physical devices. It’s not an enormous amount of data (around 200GB), but the sentimental value it holds is immense. I maintain the same habit for all of my pictures taken on my iPhone as well. ![]() Since May 2007, I have kept all of my photos in a well-organized collection, ordered chronologically by year and by session/event. ![]() The only thing that I keep backed up is my photo collection. I can download an operating system in a few minutes, restore my system preferences with a single click, install all my frequently used apps using a single command, pull all of my projects from GitHub and listen to music on my Technics SL-1200 or stream it from Apple Music. I never do a full backup of my machine though. Luckily for me, I have never been a victim of a situation where I lost all of my data simply because I do backups regularly. “There are two kinds of people, those who back up their data and those who have never lost all their data.” ![]()
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