Jorge Sanz | 2023-03-31 | 449 words | techie
Seems March 31st is World Backup Day[1] so let's take it as a good excuse to describe briefly my backup strategy. According to the website (and your common sense), "what is a backup?"
1: https://www.worldbackupday.com/en
A backup is a copy of all your important files — for example, your family photos, home videos, documents and emails. Instead of storing it all in one place (like your computer or smartphone), you keep a copy of everything somewhere safe.
For me, the important stuff is:
I do have a Synology NAS with two mirrored disks that contains a copy of the content mentioned above and many other things I don't backup like music, movies, books, etc. The inputs to the NAS are:
Then on the NAS, apart from having the data mirrored on two hard drives (so when one hard disk starts to fail I can easily replace it without any trouble) I do twice per week an incremental backup on an external USB hard disk and to a cloud storage service called Wasabi[3] (very similar to Amazon S3 service).
I hope to never use the cloud storage backup, but those six dollar per month give me total peace of mind! This set up is probably too overkill, but I once had an incident where both my workstation and my USB external hard drive failed at the same time and I struggled a lot to recover most of the content. That event led me to buy my first NAS that lasted 4 years until I upgraded it to get more CPU power to decode media to my TV. I reused the disks, but those eventually died (fortunately not at the same time) so I ended up with my current setup and capacity. As for now I'm on a 40% of storage so I don't expect to replace those anytime soon.
I have a combination of strategies, as a result of years of evolution but what about you? Are you keeping your backups near to your place, in the cloud, a combination of both, or something totally different?
Want to comment anything? Continue the discussion here[4] or contact me![5]
4: https://mapstodon.space/@jorgesanz/110117338166422573
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