Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of
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Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of
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Backup pro tip: buy a drive that's twice as big as you need so that you can back up one half of the drive to the other half
Experts recommend testing your backups periodically to make sure they work when you really need them. This can be accomplished by simply walking into Mordor and casting your computer into the fires of Mount Doom every 8-12 months
@ricci way ahead of you here
@ricci The Buddhist approach to computing: just let it go
@wilbowma take no action that has side effects
I have the problem of needing to avoid wanting nine backups of the same directory.
My redundancy has redundancy of its own.
@ricci This is why I don't worry too much about people stealing my financial information.
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Superb advice, Prof Ricci.
What's more, for those who are failure-avoidant, one isn't even obligated to fail.
One can also evade, neglect, or refrain from making backups.
@ricci After a hard drive failure that lost 30 years worth of financial data, this is the life I now lead.
this backup could have been a format c:
@ricci keep everything everywhere.
>house burns down
>work explodes
>cousins house floods
>aws goes down
Not to worry. *shakes hard drive out of a random cereal box*
@ricci If you create what you love with the intent of it being temporary... losing everything is a fresh new start.
@ricci 👍 My way to go
@ricci I do weekly backups to disks & unplug them. Lost most everything to a neighborhood ground fault that trashed every electric appliance that was on. The VHS survived.
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that's True man
I also hear the distant voice of Elsa.
@ricci I once lost several years of emails due to the crash of a computer that was not fully backed up. It turned into a great cleanup experience. The negative consequences were trivial.
@ricci brilliant! Also:
"Best defense: Not be there."
- Mr. Miyagi
@ricci This will be helpful during the "we're living in a Mad Max film, except SSDs are water" timeline in which we currently find ourselves.
@ricci I just pray to god that my SSD doesn't fail 🙏
@ricci Should we back up the bits upside-down to balance the spindle?
@DamonHD if you want to get all fancy about it
@ricci acm digital library is a free backup service with a terrible rpo
@infinimatt working on storing my backups in DNS caches
@dan @ricci amazing. Now do four
https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/
@secretasianman @dan Still a thing, I've actually got some in my desktop machine at home:
They are arranged as as two raid5s, one for the top half of every drive, the other for the bottom half of every drive, then a raid-0 striped across the two
https://www.seagate.com/innovation/multi-actuator-hard-drives.html/
@ricci me...
@wavejumper3 awwwww
@ricci way ahead of you.