do you want my account number and sortcode too?
i have no money
no thank you
Keep data and stuff on Dropbox and use git for code.
We get unlimited cloud storage at work so when I changed work computer just before Christmas I uploaded the entire hard drive of my old computer I will probably never look at this data again.
I voted “I lost some stuff I didn’t care about shrug” because it was backed up on two separate hard drives.
I’m the king of back ups. After a traumatic work incident when I lost a year’s worth of satellite weather data.
have had a couple of laptops break with lots of music on them that i’ve had to either re-rip from CD, try to redownload from somewhere or just accept is gone.
never lost anything actually important but the music thing is a pain in the arse.
usually i can copy most of it back from phone or mp3 player but twice it’s happened where my mp3 player had been broken or lost. v irksome.
Flatmate asked me to help her to choose an external hard drive to back up her business files. It was literally 140mb of word/excel stuff. She’d never even heard of Dropbox!?
I should do this if only to spare the embarrassment of someone finding my Omaha the Cat Dancer and Milo Manara comics.
fucking normies!
Favourite physical storage media?
0 voters
Just did an audit and my priorities are fucked
Work related stuff to re-use in new jobs = backed up on two HDDs Music, photos and other important sentimental stuff = backed up on two HDDs Comic books and all superhero films = backed up on three HDDs
once forgot to back up some of my music and lost a whole album which I never recreated. OOPS!
Seems like there’s no way to backup saves on the Switch. This makes me nervous.
geeks
mods can we give prof an official warning for this? thanks
I knew someone who worked in R&D for a car company, and they had to keep their work on a USB stick with a SIM card in it. If it got lost they could text a code to it that would wipe the drive!
don’t think I have anything to lose, my music is on iTunes match, my photos are on iCloud.
guess I have a few music project files in Logic but doubt I would ever revisit them
I don’t trust any software to do delta backups between drives (uness I have written the code myself, of course).
I use treecomp for a delta listing : https://lploeger.home.xs4all.nl/TreeComp.htm
Then I check the output and use treecomp for manual copying, file by file. It’s almost artisan.
Can’t imagine being bothered about losing anything, family photos/video aside maybe. Can’t believe people download stuff any more.
