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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am a nerd without money - I have 3 drives 2 that live offsite. 6gb humble spinny drives. Everything that's important to me gets copied to these drives- I'm not using any fancy software - its a cut and paste job from a few Linux laptops and a desktop. I still have all my original wav file and games backup from 1998 with this method ( though then they were on 10 zip discs ) It just takes a little due diligence to back up your data.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Until you got the click of death. - happened to me.. luckily even back then I had a copy. Get your friends to host a copy of your stuff offsite and offer to do the same for them. We even share a drive of music we send around every couple years. Everyone benefits.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I salute you for having offsite backups. That's the mark of someone doing it right.