• Patches@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The rule to backups is 3-2-1.

    3 Total Copies.

    2 Different Media. Think Cloud vs HDD vs NAS vs CD vs Thumb Drive

    1 Off-site. Typically the cloud but you can use another physical location so long as it isn’t likely to be affected by the same disaster (read: fire, flood).

    If you follow the three rules - no single event can destroy your data.

    But if you want to talk about probabilities - this is the one time Google Drive has lost a significant amount of data in 11 Years. Millions of local storage devices in the form of iPads and Computers have died while Google Drive has been alive.