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Double_AThe sad thing is that nowadays this could be easily achieved without any extra cost. Most people have a PC, a smartphone and some soft of cloud storage. Yet people don't know, or can't even be bothered until something happens.
E.g. it's an easy thing to have all your photos copy your photos to your PC, leave them on the phone, and also sync them to Google photos or something.
I'm still distrustful of cloud storage - call me a fossil - so I do my own. I have a NAS drive that's in raid 0 mode, so the two physical drives are always shadowed: if one falls, I get an alarm, can unplug and replace it with zero down time. All the devices in the house have access to the NAS, so we use it instead of the local drives for anything important. Then I have an external USB drive that I keep in a drawer at work, and I bring it home every month or so and copy the NAS to it.
Probably not a perfect solution, but seems to work.
shiftenterHmm, wouldn't that be RAID 1? I thought RAID 0 was striping, where if a drive fails you are screwed.
It's probably super unlikely, but I'd still be paranoid about that one day where your external drive is home and something happens (fire, flood, etc).
I did something similar until I went full remote. I just had two externals and would update one before going to work and take the out of date one back home.
Totally understand being distrustful of cloud storage. But there are a lot of great solutions that are end to end encrypted. I've had good luck with https://rclone.org in the past. They support so many cloud services, it's insane. You can set your own encryption key.
Two drives is a good thing. Always have a copy at a remote location and swap it out rather than shuttling the one drive back and forth.
rclone is a good solution. I use it myself. I also just found out about syncthing which is great for syncing with your phone to something to the local network.
Right, raid 1, it's been a long time and I had them backwards in my brain.
Yeah, I think the chance of a disaster happening when my external drive is home and it's one for which I can't grab my NAS on the way out the door are infinitesimally small - in not going to overly worry about it.
Synology NAS Backups with Minimal Bus Factor
<p>If you're wanting to backup your Synology NAS, you probably just want to use one of their off-the-shelf solutions in their Package Center. However, if you're stubborn like me and want to use the same CLI tool you use elsewhere, this post is for you. I'll describe how to use <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://restic.net/">restic</a> to backup folders you care about on your Synology NAS to an external hard drive and S3 conformant cloud storage providers that are <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html?highlight=wasabi#preparing-a-new-repository">supported by restic</a> and one supported by <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://rclone.org/">rclone</a>. If you want to use another command line tool, much of the instructions I provide here should still be applicable.</p>
Use a password manager.
I've used Bitwarden for years to generate passwords for any account I need to create.
It works well on your phone and has Chrome and Firefox extensions to easily autofill your passwords for login.
Password management is another big topic that is pretty big.
Something as simple a writing it down on paper in a safe location works for some.
Are also other options.
External Drives come with software now to help people sync the data, (for the less techincal).
You could also just manually copy the data by clicking and dragging.
I'm kind of a command line junkie so I use robocopy in scripts.
If you want something simple that just copies / syncs the files. FreeFileSync is the best free one.
There are also Backvp2 and GoodSync with more features, but they are paid.