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Explain backups to me like Im the familys accidental IT person

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  1. Freya
    @freya.grant

    long time lurker first post lol my mom handed me a box of hard drives and said this is everything. its every video of my kids since birth. i want to set up smth that will still be readable in twenty years and that protects against a house fire. is an old PC turned file server a good start, or is that just one more thing that can fail? simple and boring is fine with me, as long as it actually works.

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  2. Liv Kowalski
    @livk78

    been there man follow teh 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different types of storage, with one copy off-site. A NAS at home plus a cloud bacukp plus an external drive at a relatives house covers almost every disaster. fingers crossed 馃

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  3. Ash
    @ash_uplink

    make a backup before u touch the update, learned that the hard way

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  4. Rowan Z.
    @cache_owl

    ugh. reading this at 2am instead of sleeping, no regrets im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  5. Liv Kowalski
    @livk78

    oh ive been there lol keep the off-site copy disconnected when not in use. A drive that is always plugged in can be encrypted by ransomware along with everything else.

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  6. Kira
    @kira.castillo
    in reply to @livk78

    lol same thing happened to me pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo video from scratch

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  8. Jade
    @jaden698

    oof try turning off teh cache first, fixed it for me. my second monitor setup is officially haunted worked for me anyway 馃し

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  9. Haruto Banerjee
    @harutob59

    wait what everynoe keeps saying this but nobody posts proof

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  11. Rowan Z.
    @cache_owl

    ok so test a restore 馃槫 Pick a random folder once or twice a year and restore it somewhere else. A backup you have never restored from is a hope, not a plan. good luck man!

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  13. Nell
    @nell.nakamura

    oof bump. still happening with video for me. wait does this also apply to storage?

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  14. Jonas Reyes
    @jonas.reyes88

    oh ive been there lol RAID or a mirrored NAS is not a backup. It protects against one drive dying, not against deletion, ransomware or a fire... u still need a separate copy somewhere else.

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  15. Kira
    @kira.castillo

    hmmm for long term readability, keep photos in common formats like JPEG and keep the originals of RAW files alongside exports. Avoid locking the only copy into one app's library format.

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  16. Liv Kowalski
    @livk78
    in reply to @kira.castillo

    have u checked your turned settings? mine were reset after an update 馃槀 @livk78 what did u end up doing in the end fingers crossed 馃

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  17. Ash
    @ash_uplink

    ok so for me it was the DNS... swapped it and boom, fixed, this, sooo much this good luck man!

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  18. Camila Rossi
    @kernelpilot

    hmmm use versioned backups, not just syncing. A sync copies your mistakes too... tools like File History, Time Machine or a NAS sanpshot feature let u go back to how a folder looked last month. hope that helps :)

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  19. Rowan Z.
    @cache_owl

    hmmm exact same thing happened to my moms pc last month. dumb question but how do i even check the cache fingers crossed 馃

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