2026-11-15 18:10 UTC
Your 10 year old PC is making noises and you have 0 backups?
My computer does not make noises, and I’m still worried it could happen something someday. I backup some data frequently (at least once a month) and am worried that some private user data is backed up only once. Drives are expensive. Having no backup whatsoever, can’t imagine to sleep well. At least have two backups of your important data!
People who never lost data or their drives, will not understand until it happens to them.
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@alottafagina@lemmy.ml 2026-11-15 22:14
Do yourself a favor and search for every file that you created or modified in the last 30 days. Go through the list and think, truly digest, what would happen if you deleted these files right now and had to restore them from your last backup. I used to make bimonthly backups until I had to use them for a recovery and only then realized the sheer amount of work that goes into creating 2 weeks worth of data. Now I make one weekly and one monthly backup.