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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Wow, a lot of variation in this thread!

    I get all my data to my server, then from there I have borgmatic do incremental backups to a backup drive on the same machine (nightly cronjob).

    From there I use Rclone to get the encrypted borg backup to Backblaze B2 for cloud storage.

    So for 3 2 1, my 3 copies are the original, the local backup, and the cloud backup.

    My 2 media are local hard drives and cloud storage (I think it’s fair to consider this a different kind of media).

    And my 1 offsite is the cloud backup.

    Now I’m dumb and have a fear of screwing something up so I have also started burning M-Discs of my critical data (everything except TV/movie/music stuff I can redownload). Though this was a lot more expensive than I was expecting, because of aforementioned me being dumb I already screwed up two discs (they are write once). I’m also doing two copies of each disc.

    Also I have photos/home videos additionally stored in ente, they are super important to me and I wanted a separated copy someone else is looking after.




  • You might be right. Looking close up the edges don’t stand out as being faked, I just didn’t look that close before. Though the arm on the right (his left arm) is full in focus and the box right next to it is very out of focus.

    To be honest it’s been so long since I’ve seen a photo that wasn’t autocorrected up the wazoo that I can’t remember what things are supposed to look like anymore.












  • Seems the only M-Disc capable writer I can find locally is a portable USB-C connecting one, so if I go with it I’ll probably just store it with the discs. In theory M-Disc is supposed to be resistant to the kinds of things that destroy regular CDs, but making a second copy does sound like a good idea. I could even store the second copy somewhere else (another house) to protect against fire. I have cloud backup but you never know what’s going to happen over 50 years. Or if I die in the fire and no one knows I have the cloud backup.