I’ve always heard that you folks like to keep tons of backups of your stuff. I have also heard that there is this 3-2-1 rule about keeping you backups. My question is: do you follow it personally or is it something that people just tell you to follow?
I use rclone with encryption via cloud and also endpoints backup.
In my case most of the backups are done to local drive and to Acronis Cloud, some of these backups tasks are also going to external drive and FreeNAS share. Lastly, quarterly backups are going to Glacier Deep Archive in encrypted containers.
What do you use for encrypted containers? Veracrypt?
I get down on my knees every month just to pray that I don’t need to use my back ups. Then, when the inevitable happens, I get down on my knees and pray thanks that I have my back ups.
More religious than anything else in my life. I have had numerous events occur over the past 2 decades and can confirm that restoring is so much easier and better than installing from scratch. Also data( in my case the usual pictures/movies/documents/etc) are at least duplicated on other media/devices/etc.
I follow it for the most critical data, other data get just one copy (but those data is not important to me)
3-2-1 is the minimum I follow for anything important.
1 copy is the working data, 1 copy is a full system image stored on a NAS with incremental backups done nightly with Veeam, and 1 copy is on Backblaze B2 with incremental backups done nightly with Restic,
I follow it personally, backup locally to a WD drive, and cloud is idrive
Not yet. My 2nd form of media will be Blu-ray 100GB Discs, and second location will probably be another house 30 minutes away. I DO have about 3-4 copies of my most important data.
Locally, I have RAID on my NAS, my sentimental stuff is mostly synced with other systems through seafile (similar to nextcloud), and is also backed up to backblaze.
For everything else, it’s just RAID.
I do main data at home, external HD as backup offsite (I update maybe 1-2x a year otherwise it’s turned off/unplugged), and any new files not on the backup are in cloud storage + local HD, separate from main data.
If either drive failed I’d just order a new one since the odds of both failing within a couple days would be low.
I have a 2-2-0 for now. The problem is with 100 TB of data, it’s hard to find an offsite back up that is reasonable priced.
Everyone else seems to have parents or these things called “friends” that they can ask to hold onto. Wonder where I can find them.There are excellent articles that go over all this. Do a something search.
Bottom line, yes, you should at least do 3-2-1 methodology. More than that is gravy.
If by 3-2-1 you mean what I try to repeat to myself calmly when I lose my data, then yes
I do not follow it. We have an offline cloud copy and a physical copy at home. We don’t have anywhere to easily store a second copy that’s not at home, and I don’t want to update it yearly. I still suggest the 3 2 1 rule though: i know that if the cloud has an issue or my physical disk corrupts it could be a serious problem.
For me I used the cloud as my offsite backup but it’s only the most important stuff and it’s scattered between several Gmail accounts iCloud and OneDrive. Working on consolidation but right now it’s backed up somewhere other than my server. Back when I first started my data hoarding journey I only had a single harddrive and my old computer. Important stuff was already saved to the cloud so all I did was download it onto the drive. I still primarily save anything important in the cloud first but it’s all synced with my server too.
Op, can you explain me what’s this about in short? I’m a noob. :)
