AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference by webstrand on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:03PM (#44826280)

Honestly it's pretty worrying, I don't understand how other people can talk about "you have to have multiple offsite backups" when each offsite runs about $700 per year for a relatively small amount of data. I can only afford one off-site backup, and if my local copy dies it'll take a couple of weeks for me to restore from AWS because of local internet speed limitations.

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Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference by dylan604 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:11PM (#44826395)

Offsite does not have to mean another cloud solution. If you have a copy of data on a thumbdrive or other external media, you can leave it at your parent's house (or other family member). You can keep a copy of it in a safety deposit box. If it's at a family member's house, it's just an excuse to visit on a semi-regular schedule as you swap out with an updated version.

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Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:20PM (#44826506)

Yep. My backups - personal ones, not business - live in three places:

1. A hard drive in a fire safe.

2. An S3 bucket, mediated by Wasabi.

3. My friend's server that lives at his house half a continent away.

It would be nice to have a fourth location that's a physical hard-drive that lives outside of my house, but close enough to drive to for pick-up, but it would mean either paying for a safety deposit box as you mentioned, or hassling a friend once a week as I come to pick it up and deposit it.

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Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference by dylan604 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @01:18PM (#44827326)

> My friend's server that lives at his house half a continent away.

I figure that if a disaster that takes out my house and someone across town at the same time, I probably won't be worrying about restoring data. Across continent would only be viable with a server like you mentioned essentially buddyCloud.

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Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference by electroly on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:48PM (#44839134)

> I probably won't be worrying about restoring data

I urge you to reconsider this belief if you have the financial means. Life continues after natural disasters. I lived in a place that was devastated by a hurricane and many people's homes were destroyed. Those people still live and work today, and they still needed their files. They especially needed their insurance documents after the hurricane.

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