Most likely the drive is okay, but the board has developed an issue - maybe capacitors gone bad or something. As I learned couple of days ago when I got my 10 year old hard drive from storage, I was unable to read most of the data as the drive would start to intermittently disconnect from the computer. That being said, I think we have like 1GB documents in total, so it would be easy to fit in the archive.
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Besides, where I live, most required documents (drivers license, passport, birth certificate, tax records, etc) exists in government databases, so all I have at home will be various documents that maybe have sentimental value, but not exactly needed.įurthermore, documents change “frequently” where photos tend to be somewhat more static, so I can archive photos, and maybe get <10% “duplicates” due to later edits, archiving documents will pretty much be a lot of duplicates each year. The archive however is the recovery if I’m not able to retrieve my normal cloud copy (hacked, ransomware, loss of credentials, etc), I cannot access my local mirror copy (ransomware, dead disk, etc), I cannot access my local backup (dead disk, separate from the mirror disk), and I cannot access my cloud backup either.įor all of those things to go wrong a the same time, something major has to happen. I still do a 3-2-1 backup of documents with 2 versioned backups, one at home and one in another cloud provider, just like with photos. I use Healthchecks.IO ( ) to keep an “eye” on the backup status (and other more mundane tasks like monitoring the power state of my summerhouse) Using a Mac also gives you the possibility of using something like Backblaze Personal with unlimited backup storage, if that’s your thing :-) I just got the cheapest model and added a large USB drive. ) on a Raspberry Pi 4 which also worked well, but in the end I got tired of iCloud credentials expiring every ~90 days, requiring each family member to login again through a console.Ĭonsidering the M1 idles at roughly 20% more than a RPi4 (M1 at 4.5W) it was an easy sell. I really wish Apple would implement some kind of method for backing up photos stored in the cloud without the need for mirroring them.īefore the M1 I was using iCloud photo downloader (.
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When it comes to backing it up the backup software deduplicates the data, but not for the initial storage. My only gripe is that it downloads the shared photo album (new in iOS 16) once for each account, and when your photo library is 1.8TB, that suddenly becomes a lot of wasted space. It brings the added bonus of working as a content cache for anything iCloud.
I have recently switched to a M1 Mac Mini, and just have each family member sign in to that using Remote Desktop.
Also, if every step in my normal 3-2-1 backup scheme has failed and i need to recover from the archive, i probably have bigger issues than retrieving my budget for this years finances. I don't bother archiving documents as everything that is important is stored on government servers anyway, or exists in hardcopy. Every year i make an identical set of discs containing the past years photos, and these sets are stored alongside the USB drives. The drives are stored at geographically different locations, and surface scanned, updated and rotated yearly.Īnd finally, as a "last ditch recovery", i maintain an archive of M-disc Blu-Ray discs that contain a complete copy of our family photo library. I also maintain a couple of USB drives with yearly updated mirrors of the entire photo library.
Not mirrors, but proper versioned backups (as in Restic, Borg, Arq, Duplicacy, Kopia, etc). That ARM machine also has the responsibility of making backups, local to a USB drive, as well as to another cloud. Not that it helps you now, but i also keep all our family photos in the cloud (iCloud in my case), but at the same time i have a small ARM machine at home that keeps a mirror of the iCloud data.
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