a USB stick is enough
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.
a USB stick is enough
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 1 day 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 1 day 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 8 hours 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.