Should you backup your data?

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[timorouw]

everyone has a point in their life where they realize they need a backup. Sadly for most people that point is data loss

[bikesandcoffe]

A daily reminder to stay hydrated so that you can keep sweating tech.

[ElvenSpellmaker]

I really want a NAS but not sure where to start. An up to date Linus NAS video would be great.

[purplegill]

The point about having an online/offsite/third backup is so important. Due to financial issues, I couldn't afford anything other than an external drive for my backup solution and, of course, one day it got corrupted so badly that it won't even be read by the computer anymore. I was one of those rare cases where having 2 backups wasn't enough for my important stuff.

[vaxxu]

watching this reminded me that i should re-backup all the important images on my pc. thanks LOL

[schelx]

Backing up your info is important, but so is organizing those.
I went back to my disorganized backups and were going to organize them, after 3-4 weeks of 5-9 hours of organizing, I just saved documents (PDFs, Word, Excel, etc..) and deleted all my photos that weren't yet organized. I deleted about 50GB of pictures (total before deletion: ~125GB of photos alone).
I regret not organizing them beforehand, but I'm glad I didn't torture myself tying to do it all at once.

[JPK]

that reminds me of the time my boss put a bunch of hard drives in a cart with rubber weels, brought them to the other end of the campus over cobblestone and when he turned them back in half of them Were trash

[IgorEngelen]

The O365 family subscription was a no brainer for me with 2 kids in school. Especially with the cloud storage that comes to it.

[liminos]

Device -> NAS -> B2 (encrypted with retention)

Also.. sometimes the internet forgets due to technology deprecation..

[TheLukemcdaniel]

The photographer my brother and his wife used for their wedding had the only copies of the photos on her laptop while she was working on them when it died on her. It took them YEARS to get anything other than the few pics that some of us had taken on our phones.

[mxxc]

What linus is describing is what CrashPlan home edition used to do. You could invite friends and back up to each other's computers.
There was also an open source attempt i think something like 'backup co-op' but it seems like it didn't go anywhere.

[DUDA-__-]

A friend of mine and me are doing this "manually" it's a nice idea for a cheap and easy offsite backup.

[AlasdairGR]

Depending on what data you’re storing, I honestly think you should also have physical back ups as well. Drives can get damaged, corrupted, stolen, lost, etc. If you have important documents and photographs you want to keep extra safe from potential loss, keep some hard copies and photo albums locked away. The more diverse ways you have your important documents and data stored, the better.

[christopherguy]

I think Synology does this exact backup mode in their NAS storage OS.

[ingframin]

When I was a kid I used to make backups on DVDs.:-) How times have changed in the past 20 years is amazing.

[HamishArb]

I made my own backup software because I got a scare when my old drive almost died. It just copies any files and deletions that have changed between drives (from source to destination). It keeps all the dates properly intact and reparse points and it runs very fast. Usually about 1h (+ copy time) for my 4tb external hard drive from like 3 years ago, 3tb used and about 800, 000 filesystem entries (for comparison, Windows takes about 4 days before the first dialogue and ruins all the dates and doesn't even remove deleted files). I'd consider something like raid, but I needed it to be portable and not slow to access like over internet (I do live in Australia after all). A friend uses it and it runs in ~20-25 mins for them, but they only have 400, 000 files and 2 recent hard drives. It would be interesting to see how fast it actually runs compared to other backing up solutions.

[caremao]

The backup of schrodinger: every backup is in a undetermined state of corruption until the moment that is needed...

[chevon]

Every single hard drive will fail. The only question is when.

[GreenCincoOfficial]

6:46 Wasn't Linus and Jake doing a sponsored video by synology where the main video topic was exactly this? Two people have a synology NAS and they "invite" each other to assign certain space to the other person that the person can use to store encrypted files and even decrypt them if they both should access them?

10:20 Alright.. Next time I watch the video first..

[elevatorz]

Backblaze is affordable, but their restore over web service is terrible (speed-wise). I use Arq instead.