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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by ethbr0 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @08:57AM (#34881178)
Your comment made me wonder if there's anyone out there with regularly-taken long-persistence (tape, optical media, etc.) backups in their personal basement.

It seems a very specific Venn intersection to utilize technology to a high degree, but also to imagine and prepare for its worst case failure.

Maybe the NZ tech-prepper crowd?

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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by james_a_craig on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:38AM (#34881664)
I keep an LTO tape robot around for just exactly that reason. I trust backblaze, but I don't trust them to the point of not writing off a weekly/monthly/yearly tape set.
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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by bombcar on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:13AM (#34881376)
There are dozens of us! I make regular yearlies that go "basement" and never get overwritten. Has come in useful very rarely, maybe it was worth the cost?
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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by ethbr0 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:24AM (#34881495)
What media? Curious!
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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by bombcar on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:52AM (#34883384)
I use RDX removable drives, actually, treat them as hard drives.
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Re:Thread on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phe... by bigtunacan on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @10:40PM (#34891353)
A company I previously worked at (self-hosted) all production servers were RAID 5, plus continual cloud backups, with nightly backups that rotated weekly and monthly backups that were shipped out of state and stored in a disaster recovery facility in the event of a total catastrophe (earthquake, hurricane, etc).

The off-site backup storage was required by several of our largest customers due to the critical nature of our software.

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