Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving and backups?

Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by kova12 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:33AM (#28520610)

The advice this guy gives is far from ideal:

First, when drive fails, it often doesn't tell you right away. If you rsync --delete , there is high chance your deletions would copy. Same goes for corruption.

Second, keeping drive with potentially private data unencrypted is a liability. Especially offsite. Someone will steal it and all your private stuff is out. I am not even considering case when you store crypto on said PC

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Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by toast0 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:53AM (#28538473)

> Second, keeping drive with potentially private data unencrypted is a liability. Especially offsite. Someone will steal it and all your private stuff is out. I am not even considering case when you store crypto on said PC

Otoh, keeping your storage encrypted means losing your keys is losing your data. And your heirs are likely unable to access it.

You have to weigh your threats.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by m463 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:42PM (#28542716)

I think people need to get a strategy - any strategy - before they can think about these sort of second-order details.

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