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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:49 AM
Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:20 PM
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
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:27 PM
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
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SnoopJSnoopJ@hachyderm.io
Dec 16, 2025, 3:50 AM
@ricci way ahead of you here
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G. Wozniakgwozniak@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 4:19 AM
@SnoopJ @ricci 99% of what I have could be deleted and it wouldn't matter.
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SnoopJSnoopJ@hachyderm.io
Dec 16, 2025, 4:20 AM
@gwozniak @ricci Sturgeon's Law strikes again!
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G. Wozniakgwozniak@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 4:21 AM
@SnoopJ @ricci Was going through some boxes the other day and came across my thesis.
It's totally in the "maybe" pile.
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klu9klu9@ohai.social
Dec 16, 2025, 3:16 PM
@SnoopJ @ricci
Way ahead? How??? By creating only things that should be actively deleted?
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William J. Bowmanwilbowma@types.pl
Dec 16, 2025, 3:50 AM
@ricci The Buddhist approach to computing: just let it go
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:52 AM
@wilbowma take no action that has side effects
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G. Wozniakgwozniak@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 4:20 AM
@ricci @wilbowma Live the functional life?
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Brian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊syferdet@toad.social
Dec 16, 2025, 4:11 AM
@ricci
I have the problem of needing to avoid wanting nine backups of the same directory.
My redundancy has redundancy of its own.
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ocdtrekkieocdtrekkie@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 6:10 AM
@ricci This is why I don't worry too much about people stealing my financial information.
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Guillotine Jones, FlâneurGuillotine_Jones@beige.party
Dec 16, 2025, 7:16 AM
@ricci
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.
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Roadskater, Ph.D.roadskater@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 7:19 AM
@ricci After a hard drive failure that lost 30 years worth of financial data, this is the life I now lead.
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Expertenkommision Cyberunfallexpertenkommision_cyberunfall@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 7:24 AM
@ricci
this backup could have been a format c:
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FirekeeperDonWalruths@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 7:32 AM
@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*
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NetravenNetraven@hear-me.social
Dec 16, 2025, 8:12 AM
@ricci If you create what you love with the intent of it being temporary... losing everything is a fresh new start.
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Gunde - RoteGnGunde@mastodon.nu
Dec 16, 2025, 9:23 AM
@ricci 👍 My way to go
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@stevewfoldsstevewfolds@mastodon.world
Dec 16, 2025, 10:01 AM
@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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Jasson Stathamjassonstatham00123@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 10:02 AM
@ricci
that's True man
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Hein Ragasheinragas@mublog.nl
Dec 16, 2025, 10:26 AM
@ricci @skye A very Buddhist approach to data preservation
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⠠⠵ avukoavuko@infosec.exchange
Dec 16, 2025, 11:34 AM
@heinragas @ricci @skye
I also hear the distant voice of Elsa.
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JosephJosephMeyer@c.im
Dec 16, 2025, 12:29 PM
@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.
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nadakanadaka@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 12:31 PM
@ricci brilliant! Also:
"Best defense: Not be there."
- Mr. Miyagi
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Stephanie Vee :blobcatcoffee:st3phvee@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 12:57 PM
@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.
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Mitex Leoml@social.mitexleo.one
Dec 16, 2025, 3:13 PM
@ricci I just pray to god that my SSD doesn't fail 🙏
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DamonHDDamonHD@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 3:22 PM
@ricci Should we back up the bits upside-down to balance the spindle?
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:27 PM
@DamonHD if you want to get all fancy about it
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Mattinfinimatt@hci.social
Dec 16, 2025, 6:14 PM
@ricci acm digital library is a free backup service with a terrible rpo
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 6:39 PM
@infinimatt working on storing my backups in DNS caches
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Dan Portsdan@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 6:11 PM
@ricci
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InfoseepageInfoseepage@mastodon.social
Dec 16, 2025, 6:14 PM
@dan @ricci I think I have one of those drives sitting in a closet at home. It is a Connor drive, right? Uses multiple heads with a smaller than typical platter size to boost r/w speed and head contention.
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Chenukah Miracle Whipsecretasianman@types.pl
Dec 16, 2025, 6:15 PM
@dan @ricci amazing. Now do four
https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 6:39 PM
@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/
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VER-1602wavejumper3@tech.lgbt
Dec 16, 2025, 3:39 PM
@ricci me...
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Rob Ricciricci@discuss.systems
Dec 16, 2025, 3:41 PM
@wavejumper3 awwwww
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UpLateGeekUpLateGeek@bitbang.social
Dec 16, 2025, 4:08 PM
@ricci way ahead of you.
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