make sure the “someone else” isn’t a clown hat like Microsoft
I mean just about anyone of sufficient size is susceptible to this. Just keep multiple backups.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Reminder “the cloud” is someone else’s computer. If you’re going to use it at least make sure the “someone else” isn’t a clown hat like Microsoft.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I mean just about anyone of sufficient size is susceptible to this.
Sure - the bigger the business, the more expendable each user/customer is. And Microsoft is really huge.
Just keep multiple backups.
Two are enough for most people (the 3-2-1 rule); sometimes one. The catch is that at least one of those backups must be off-line, and in a different medium than the original. While you can use the cloud to increase the reliability of the whole system, you should never rely exclusively on it.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No, it’s really not. In addition to failing abruptly and often unpredictably, flash based media will suffer from bit rot when left unpowered for extended periods of time.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
It is enough for my use case, considering the likelihood of my SSD and the USB stick going kaboom in the span of a single month is next to zero; if only one of them does it, I can use the other to recover the data to a third medium.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Do keep in mind that if you’ve got a flood, fire, or something else happening to your pc, it will be lost. That’s why I’d recommend an off-site backup, or at least to somewhere else in the house than where the pc is.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
The stick in question is off-site; it sees the PC once per month, then it gets back to the drawer. And regardless of its fate, if I had a flood or fire affecting my PC, in the second store of a brick house, odds are that I’d have far more pressing matters than the data.
Sina@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
It’s much higher than zero, if let’s say your ssd goes kaput & you try moving everything at once to a new one. That action by itself comes with risk, especially if the usb stick is very large & manufactured after covid. There is also the bit rot issue, usb sticks are useless as backup solutions for any use case, it’s just a false sense of security.