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My 8 year old HDD died (alien.top)
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Title says it all. Most of the stuff I had no backup for. It sucks but I'm trying to take it in stride. Time will tell if I actually needed any of that data or if I was just hoarding it with no actual use.

I'm still trying to recover the data with pros, and in any case I'll find a cost-efficient way to keep backups from now (any suggestions? One drive? External SSD?)

Have any of you experienced this? How do you feel or how would you feel? Is this your worst nightmare? Let's discuss

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[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

'There's two kinds of people in this world, those that have backups, and those who will'

Welcome to the club, and sorry for your loss.

There's lots of practices around backups with different levels of complexity and costs. Before deciding on how you want to handle things going forward ask yourself a few questions

  1. How important is this data? Is it irreplaceable?
  2. How much data do I have to backup?
  3. How do I want to control it? Locally? Cloud services?
  4. What budget do I have to do this with?

In some cases, it's cheaper and less headache to use cloud backup services for smaller amounts of data, with the downside being that you're trusting someone else with your data.

In others, setting up your own DAS(direct attached storage) or NAS (network attached storage) might make sense, then you manage the data locally. You should do some reading to understand the basic concepts of RAIDs 1,0,5 and 10 and how they affect data redundancy.

Lastly, consider if a 3-2-1 (The 3-2-1 rule states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different storage types with one copy off-site for disaster recovery.) back up policy makes sense for you and your risk tolerance. Some absolutists will state you have no real backup without it, but IMO there's some grey area there depending on different needs and risk tolerances.

The important part is you're now considering options to reduce your chances of experiencing this again.