Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by fph on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:53PM (#42353130)

All your backups are on-site then?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by ramtatatam on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:43PM (#42354073)

I assume when you mention `on-site` you mean my house - yep, NAS is at home.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by fph on Sunday December 08, 2024 @11:07AM (#42357876)

What happens if a fire at your house destroys both your computer and the NAS? Or if a thief steals both? Are your data permanently lost?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by qwer1234321 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:00PM (#42361844)

If my house cought fire my NAS burns, and that's fine. If I survive the fire I can still access my email. If I don't Linode shuts it down month later, so it's good for the planet too ;)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by jasmes on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:05AM (#42363205)

I think the idea was more like... if you can afford a RAID6 NAS at home you can afford Backblaze so don't be silly and get some offsite redundancy going.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by qwer1234321 on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:34AM (#42364135)

Thank you for drawing my attention to this, I was not aware of Backblaze! I'll have to deduplicate my backups (of backups of backups) and will definitely look into saving most precious bits!

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