#backup
guys pls help confession: my only backup of my family photos is File History... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a…
ok weird one i opened CrystalDiskInfo out of curiosity and got this for my laptop SSD: Uncorrectable Sector Count is flagged. The drive seems to work fine: files open, no strange noises. But now i cant stop thinking about it. How serious is this?? Do i have…
so annoyed rn confession: my only backup of my game captures is a second internal disk... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a…
im literally losing my mind here my mom handed me a box of hard drives and said this is everything. its thousands of RAW files. I want to set up something that will still be readable in twenty years and that protects against a cloud account getting locked.…
our household has a few laptops and a desktop with work files, family photos and some scanned documents. i want a backup setup that doesnt depend on me remembering. i understand the idea of 3 copies, 2 media, 1…
ok so this is a good thraed. Two drvies, one small Linux box, family data :D Option A: mirror them 🔥 Option B: use one as primary and teh other as a nightly versioned backup target. Option C: something else? i want to…
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…
long time lurker first post lol confession: my only backup of my family photos is cloud storage. I'm fairly sure that's not enough, but every guide I find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. what's a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person…
Got this today: The NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning I've ever seen. Percentage Used went from zero to a small number. Should I replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? I've read conflicting…
got this today: The laptop SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. Media and Data Integrity Errors went from zero to a small number. Should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? Ive…
hmmmm ok got this today: the NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning i've ever seen. reallocated Sectors went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? 🤦 i've…
My BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, the health tool shows: That's my 4 TB hard drive. Percentage Used is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and teh only other copy is a cloud…
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…
ok weird one my BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, teh health tool shows: Thats my external backup drive. Media and Data Integrity Errors is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and…
ok so confession: my only backup of my tax documents is cloud storage... im fairly suree thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a laptop?…
guys pls help got this today: the old boot SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. uncorrectable Sector Count went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go…
ugh. question for teh backup nerds: how often do you test restoring? i realized Ive been backing up my client projects to a NAS for years and Ive never once tried to get a file back from it. Is that as risky as it suddenly feels? Also curious how you…
im planning to buy an old PC turned file server for my late grandmothers scanned albums. before I spend money, I want to sanity check the plan with peolpe whove done this... what do you do, and what disasters have you seen happen to ppl who thought they were…
