FediThing has moved!Feb 5, 2023

Reminder that whatever you store on an internet site will one day vanish, even if it's stored on the largest and richest site in the world:

"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016

Please don't rely on internet services to exist forever, they will all disappear eventually.

Try to store copies of important stuff offline if you can. Music, video, photos etc can all be stored locally.

Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016

Faulty server migration blamed for mass deletion of songs, photos and video

The Guardian
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@FediThing Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups:
Three backups - an original backup and two copies
Two backups mediums - Note SSDs may not retain data if they aren’t periodically powered up
One backup offsite - This is the “what about a fire/flood/tornado?” scenario. Your next door neighbor is probably not the best place for this. If this is hosted online, ask if the host encrypts your data and whether they also have access to your encryption key(s).

And periodically test the recovery process!

Feb 5, 2023 at 10:52pmWeb