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title: Backup strategy
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date: 2024-08-13
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- computers
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After discussing it with the family,
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we decided that being able to load the backups onto a Chromebook was a consideration,
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since I might not be around to recover the data.
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What we wound up with was a USB SATA adapter,
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and a couple El Cheapo 10TB hard drives formatted with ext4.
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I'm running rsync of my entire mirrored btrfs onto one right now,
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with the expectation that someone will be able to read that on a Chromebook,
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or find a helpful nerd to do it.
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One drive will live at my father's apartment.
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Every six months or so I'll need to run the rsync again.
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At some point one of them will fail,
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and will have to be replaced with a new hard drive.
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We're also going to start printing out photos
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and making albums the old fashioned way.
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I have low confidence that my grandchildren will be able to read an EXT4 SATA hard drive.
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But I'm pretty sure they'll be able to see a photograph
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This backup strategy is essentially what we were doing before,
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the big change being that I'm no longer buying these crummy USB hard drives
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that seem to fail after 2 years.
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Hopefully the 5.25" hard drives last longer.
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We'll see.
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