Backups: You're doing 'em wrong!

For those of us who live out in the country many miles from a city, and where the only choice is Satellite internet (with a 30GB/month cap), what do I do to back up my 400 GiB of data (that would take 15 months of data transfer) into "the cloud" ? Can I mail a disk drive somewhere? I asked Linode and they don't accept mailed-in drives, so I'm lost as to how to do this.

I got 3 backups, I do have enough data to fill up at least a 8TB HDD, but my important non replaceable backup I can fit on a 1TB HDD, so I have 3 locations and 3 different drives for that, the rest of my stuff if I were to loose it, I could replace/redownload it so its not a big deal if I do loose that.

I'm thinking of just getting a cheap Pi and using Samba or FTP. I already have an external HDD.

hi have droboc5 would like to upgrade to nas tried the ex4 but failed after a firmware update i have 12tb any suggestions regards andy

looking at the 12 HDDs I've got spread across the room for 1 PC (excluding the old PC running as a plex server), I think I have a hoarding issue, as well as a back up problem.

With luck and a following wind we'll finally get FTTP in a few months, so I can add a cloud backup, but I think in the interim I'll have to add in more external drives with an actually thought through back up plan.

IIRC I've got about 15-20TB of data (exc movies) so perhaps some deleting and consolidating is in order....

This video is decent, but I see a hole in your plan. Let's say you die in a house fire, and your local storage is all burnt in the fire. How is your wife (or your heirs) going to get your iCloud data? Will Apple give her your iCloud password? Probably not. (You may need a court order, and even then Apple doesn't always comply.) Just a few weeks ago Apple introduced a new feature called "Advanced Data Protection for iCloud" which attempts to address this issue. You should create a new video explaining how this works.

CLOUD stuff is STUPID--- your'e trusting someone else to STORE your stuff and to keep their noses OUT OF IT.. NOT GOOD.

Why do you use the Raspbery Pi to upload your video files to AWS glacier? A more general question is whether you need a separate host if your backup can fit inside an external hard disk drive or is it enough to just plug it in the system.

After about my 5th watch of this video this year, I've finally written the 60 lines of bash it will take to do this for my life for the second copy. Once I do Time Machine i'll have a 3,2,1 of everything except all of my incredibly legal movies and tv shows

I am the former, who has lost data in the past. :'(

It's amazing how many people do no backups whatsoever. Hopefully it's the kind of mistake only made once.

Gickup for Github backups was a really good tip!
Until now I had a Gitea Mirror setup for each individual repo like a caveman..

Any update on the NextCloud review? :)

Trick 17: Start to not care, billions of years have gone by without a single backup. And there are trillions of planets in this universe where they dont matter, too.

i have a quick question... you mentioned about storing your photoshoot photos, ... what about the photos you shoot in your phone? how do you backup them up?

Yeah, keep telling them that RAID is NOT a backup.... because they seem to be stubborn!! I'm dead serious... so many people still call it their backup.

How much storage do you have in your Mac mini, are you using an external SSD for storage?

Just had a nice weekend of reinstalling windows. Made a clone of my ssd so I'd be able to go back if needed. Proceeded to boot from the clone as a test which somehow caused both the original and backup to get partially nuked (managed to recover nearly everything). That same weekend the pins in one of my drives got bent, also managed to recover that drive luckily. Maybe I should actually start working on a backup strategy. I don't want to go through the worry of potentially losing data again.

Impressive video! Data protection is paramount, and a personalized backup plan is essential. Handy Backup is here to enhance your data security. 🌟💾

How much are you paying for cloud storage services per year? :o Jeez xD

is raidz usefull? i have 50tb in nas but didnt use raid at all since people say raid isnt a back up. plan to have offline back up. so 2 copy with one in nas in jbod mode? because its more safe to lost one drive instead whole array that isnt recovable. lets say 10tb array of 8 in raidz3 is it still safe? and how long it takes to rebuild incase 1 or 2 hardrive fail?

So I need to mirror my data that's 32 TB... How long would 2 new 16 TB hard drive last in cold storage if I spun them up once a year and synced to them?

If you're using cloud as a backup solution you're doing it wrong. Cloud storages should not count to the 3-2-1 rule, they're as good as "hot storage".

I think people concerned about data aren't going to be intentionally pointing a nail gun at their storage mediums and firing it. Also cloud services are not an option unless you know how to encrypt things then make sure no one else has the password to decrypt it. The only way that is ensured, is if you never used anything on a computer that connects in any way to the internet, for any reason, or to keep it on a removable drive that is never connected to the internet when that removable drive is attached.

Also, unless backup is constantly happening in the background, or you travel daily, you will never have an up to date off site backup that is private. And even backups physically carried can be seized by police or customs. And no, they do not need a warrant. And customs, doesn't only need a warrant, it is legal and they're protected from any legal actions attempted on what they've seized.

As for nuclear disasters and end of the world scenarios, it isn't going to matter. All of us that are not in a nuclear protected place are going to die sooner or later, and not much later, like Madame Curie. And we will be so sick anyway, that we won't be able to do anything or think about anything, except the pain, while we wait to expire.

Some data may be more valuable than the hardware hosting it. I use LTO-5 and LTO-6 and have a cold storage 200km away. RAID is NOT backup ! (just a way to keep data online in case of a HDD failure, nothing ELSE !)

my plan is nas with 2x hard drive failure with an offline 20tb drive that gets plugged in when i get new data enough to transfer TBH most of my data is just tv shows+ movies if worse comes to worse i just re rip them off the disks. My family photo's are stored on USB Sticks with at lest 2 copies and one set burnt on to DVD's that are store at at lest 4 peoples houses

Great video and very clear. The one thing I would add to it is that good backups should also include incremental or differential snapshots or otherwise historical copies so when I discover that my document was corrupted before last night's backup ran, I can still go back, say, a week, and pull a working copy of it when needed.

How do you find anything that was stored a long time ago?

How do we prevent duplication?

Should we delete anything that can not be used/identified anymore? For
example (1), a BlackBerry Message (BBM) archive and BlackBerry
contacts were stored with proprietary utility in an unrecognized file
format. Example (2), a contact list and text messages from a
SonyEricson phone: also in an unrecognized file format.

My phone is backed up on
Terabox
Google drive
My computer
Autosync
Onedrive

Edit: is that too much😅?

Wait… isn’t a mirrored RAID technically two copies on different media??

you really dont need a backup if you already have it in the cloud, the chance of some random hacker is going to hack into your cloud just to delete your stuff and also the chance of them not being able to recover it is so low its irrelevant, sure its alot quicker to get the data locally but that's more about accessibility not archiving, but then again you are a mac user so obviously you dont think about things logically you just copy what someone else has told you to the tea, the 3 2 1 method of backups is a dated method made before cloud storage was a thing and is not relevant to backups in 2024, but if you want to pointlessly backup stuff because of some illogical addiction to an outdated ruleset go ahead but its not necessary unless you believe that the cloud storage provider is not good enough then in that case you should probably switch to another service, the fact is cloud storage is already backing it up to multiple services and will never be deleted regardless of what any hacker does

Isn't the 321 rule already applied in cloud backup solutions? I would believe it if the companies want to cheap out but considering the shitstorm they would get for it, I would believe that they have at least 2 copies of your data.

your information is sound but you know I've got to bring a sour comment you realize that you're part of the problem using apples cloud backup you know it's not private yet you use it because it's convenient therefore Apple has no incentive to change their privacy violating ways

damn son what's with the saturation on this video? calm down.

Also, great video! Very informative and helped me start my home server journey

jeff, i've watched many of your videos over the years + while you always deliver on the information, i always can't help but to think what a truly kind-hearted fellow you are 🤍 i, among many millions, i'm sure, appreciate your knowledge + goodness you share w/ the world 💫

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Have things changed since moving into the office?

One of the 3 2 1 must be air-gapped. Else randomware will kill your data. Not to forget, how you will recover your data if everything goes south.

This is way too complicated for me. Need to search for the simple backup :-)

My 3rd backup is my old laptop running TrueNAS connected to a giant HDD dock at my parents house. Don't need for it to be fast, just high capacity and secure

Fantastic video!

If my house burns down, i wont give a fuck about what was on my HDDs 😂

I just want to back up videos and pics from 4 phones without having to keep pay for Google Photos 🤣

People do need the backups to last long, but to check you only need to it for contrast points.
So say around the time, 2800 ish were being injected into USA (increasing amount) monthly. Estimate.
It was an insane number. Can't really validate it.

People only need to drives to last a month because you should always be doing contrast reports at that points because it is huge to deal with.

There is something being veiled in their chip. boards, most likely multiple areas they can't clearly see.

It was said that the interfaces they had were rewritten to hide something in it.

"push host"

Excellent content, delivery and practicality!

Hey that's me 😂
Thanks for mentioning gickup