Can you please share your backup strategies for linux? I’m curious to know what tools you use and why?How do you automate/schedule backups? Which files/folders you back up? What is your prefered hardware/cloud storage and how do you manage storage space?

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Not only because third world issues, but because I like adrenaline, I don’t have any backup strategy but an old external HDD where I haven’t copied stuff since 2018.

    When I could afford a new PC and tried to rsync my data from my old crappy laptop, much of it was lost.

    That being said, I had a backup strategy back in the day that was burning CDs. I used to have a second HDD (a IDE one) but they were so freaking bad all of them went bad after a year or so, so I have like 3 or 4 of them stored without any chance to recover their data.

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      28 days ago

      After having recently restored some stuff from an aging external hdd, i’m seriously considering getting a few dvdr discs and burning the important things every now and then.

      I know they don’t last forever either, but - just as a random example that has definitely never happened to me hahaha - you can drop them from a height of 3 feet and still get files off them!