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How Do You ACTUALLY Back Up Your Game Captures? Be Honest

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  1. Yusuf O.
    @tiny_hound

    not gonna lie this is driving me nuts a friend's laptop died last week and took years of game captures with it... it scared me into looking at my own setup, which is basically an external drive that I update whenever I remember. I know about the 3-2-1 rule in theory. what does your real, everyday backup routine look like?? xD what's automated, and what do you still do by hand?? I'm not looking for an enterprise setup, just something realistic I'll actually keep doing... bonus points if it doesn't need a monthly reminder in my calendar.

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  2. Ash
    @ash.nakamura

    do you have a place off-site, like a relatives house or a cloud plan?

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  4. Ash
    @ash.nakamura

    lol same thing happened to me +1 same here

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  5. Hugo M.
    @hmoreau

    lol same thing happened to me the 3-2-1 idea: three copies of teh data, on two different types of storage, one of them off-site. For most people thats teh main drive, a local backup drive, and a cloud backup. good luck man!

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  6. Haruto
    @vector_deck

    Automate it 😂 A backup that depends on remembering will eventually be skipped. File History or Windows Backup on Windows, Time Machine on macOS, and tools like Déjà Dup or restic on Linux all run on a schedule. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  7. Yusuf O.
    @tiny_hound
    in reply to @vector_deck

    @vector_deck yesss set up automatic daily backups plus a monthly drive i swap with my parents. Tested a restore and it worked. Sleeping better now.

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