Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System?
by Razengan on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:36AM
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I use a combination of:
• Automatic Time Machine to a single external USB-C disk: Cumbersome to selectively restore from, the UI can be clunky, but it has saved my ass in some tight situations.
• All files stored on iCloud Drive: No history. Files may be lost during buggy betas like Catalina’s. Deleted files can usually be restored from the web UI.
• Private GitHub repositories for anything that involves text (code, notes): May get unexpectedly removed by Microsoft at their whim, e.g. for making statements against China.
• Manual copies of entire user home folders to different external disks: Hard to do incremental backups.
• Automatic Time Machine to a single external USB-C disk: Cumbersome to selectively restore from, the UI can be clunky, but it has saved my ass in some tight situations.
• All files stored on iCloud Drive: No history. Files may be lost during buggy betas like Catalina’s. Deleted files can usually be restored from the web UI.
• Private GitHub repositories for anything that involves text (code, notes): May get unexpectedly removed by Microsoft at their whim, e.g. for making statements against China.
• Manual copies of entire user home folders to different external disks: Hard to do incremental backups.