Those who keep another copy of their hard drive (or whatever other backup source) offsite, where is that? Your mommas house? A storage locker facility? At work?

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    1 year ago

    I have another house, about 800 miles away… With another fairly identical setup. VPN at 1gb between. That’s for the replication. Also, have another site, with a VPN, and some rackspace there for periodic backups. My more critical stuff is put in an encrypted drive and left at another location. I like doing things myself and this works for me, but you may want to look into some bucket storage in the cloud, or just a USB drive you can carry offsite on occation.

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      1 year ago

      Aren’t magnetic forces a concern? Is it SSD or a standard drive?

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        1 year ago

        Not sure what kind of safetybox you got in your bank but over here they are just plain steel containers vary in size depending on what you pay. I got a couple of them though the service becomes less and less common over here. I don’t see how storing drives in there would be a risk, just a hassle to keep them up to date.

        Personally I just dropped a Synology at my parents place. They have a 1GB up/down line for watching her youtube video’s and every week of my critical data they receive a copy. Relatively low cost, low power and easy to use.

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    1 year ago

    Onedrive for my documents but that is only up to 1 TB, and more for convenience as i have them available everywhere on all devices.

    Pictures in the locker at work. = 8TB drive

    HDDs in my shed for Movies and Series

    Once my shed is rebuild (bricks and mortar), even the Pictures will go there.

    The point of offsite is: How far do you want to go? If mayor wildfires, floodings, hurricanes and tornadoes aren’t a thing. Or if you build houses that are not made of toothpicks where you live. 25m away, in a separate building is more than sufficient imo.

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        1 year ago

        Around 4TB

        I take a lot of pictures and tend to keep all the RAW files that are not absolute garbage or test shots. @40-50MB per piece, It goes pretty quick.

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          Pushing 7TB here. Everything I’ve shot over the last 40 years, both on digital (RAW) and digitized film, plus the scanned slides of about 4 other people and my extensive historic slide/negative collection. I don’t ever trash anything, except for the rare instance that my shutter release gets hit accidentally and I get a burst of 15 out-of-focus boot pictures.

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    I stash my second janky NAS with my family in another part of the country. I ask my sibling to keep it powered on every week or so then shut it down after a couple minutes. If my main data storage near the capital city goes kaput, I’d phone my sibling to bring me my entire NAS (all expenses paid) immediately. My main stash is in my office which is only 10’ commute