backup strategy

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