Why YSK: If you have digital data that is important, (family photos, crypto keys/wallets…). Back it up and prevent permanently losing it.

3 different places its saved to, (iPhone, ICloud, laptop, Facebook, Google, Camera SD, Flash drive…).

2 different media, I would consider iPhone and iCloud the same. Buying two External Drives of the same type and brand too. Why? Consider losing your Apple account or the drive model fails in a year.

1 off site copy. If all your copies are in your house, a flood, fire, tornado, hurricane, EMP… would lose every thing.

0 time to waste. (My own personal add). Do it now. Procrastination is dangerous and is the biggest regret for when things go sideways.

  • npastaSyn@kbin.socialOP
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    2 years ago

    Two drives is a good thing. Always have a copy at a remote location and swap it out rather than shuttling the one drive back and forth.

    rclone is a good solution. I use it myself. I also just found out about syncthing which is great for syncing with your phone to something to the local network.