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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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The 3-2-1 rule (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Its_Gamerik@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I've always heard that you folks like to keep tons of backups of your stuff. I have also heard that there is this 3-2-1 rule about keeping you backups. My question is: do you follow it personally or is it something that people just tell you to follow?

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[–] Fififaggetti@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You may laugh but I burned all my super important stuff(hi res scans of photos going back to wheN they got off boat and lot S of other pics and vid’s ) onto 50 Blu-ray disks. Since I have no friends I’d trust I found a piece of 6 inch pvc pipe glued cap on one end and threaded plug on other leak checked it put disks in it and buried in the yard a foot and half deep with p gravel around it. My main worry is Forrest fire I live in woods. Only thing in my backyard is me and the deer and a big ass raccoon. It doesn’t need updating. It’s been underground 5 yrs now I should dig it up and have a look I suppose. My daughter that lives a few hundred miles away knows where it is incase I get ate by raccoons. But not what’s inside of it. She has the originals. So not a good place for digital copies. There’s also a note in my will for someone to go dig it up. It’s not hard to find has a paver stone as x marks spot.

[–] reercalium2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Optical disks buried in a back yard... do you check them for disk rot? If you aren't testing the restore, you don't have a backup!

[–] fliberdygibits@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

So it's 6 inch PVC... how long is it? We need to know it's capacity in TB.

[–] Forte69@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems fairly sensible to be honest

[–] The-Vanilla-Gorilla@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not.

[–] Forte69@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not?

[–] The-Vanilla-Gorilla@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Are you really asking why it's not a good idea to go dig a hole in some random corner of the forest and store your "sealed with glue" PVC pipe full of really important media on DVDs to save for your daughter (who, coincidentally, also has the originals already?) for long term safe data storage?

Or do you just wanna chat?

I mean, I'm cool w/ the second one but I have a hard time taking anyone seriously for the first one.