Here is what I do to hedge the risk of electrical failure (raid+usb on the same circuit), fire (both copies in same structure), malicious compromise of my machine and theft:
- My workstation has linux software raid-1 of 2x 6TiB drives (this provides robustness and uptime in case of single drive failures and ease of recovery).
- Another machine in my garage doing incremental daily backup pulls over the network. It is setup as multiple discrete hard drives thus partitioning single drive failures (low cost, the garage is a separate building, the host machine is an arm board that actually turns off HD PSU when not backing up, so hard drives are fairly isolated from power spikes).
- I make a monthly incremental backup (three sets) onto an external 6TB usb hard drive encrypted with luks. This drive spends 99% of it's life powered down in a cabinet at my office at work. It is protected against theft, fire, electrical spikes, etc... by my employer.
- The is not a *ucking cloud anywhere in this picture. I can get access to my backups within ~1hr in worst case (round trip drive to office to pickup my drive).
You Kids need to learn how to take care of your shit - now get off my lawn!!
- My workstation has linux software raid-1 of 2x 6TiB drives (this provides robustness and uptime in case of single drive failures and ease of recovery).
- Another machine in my garage doing incremental daily backup pulls over the network. It is setup as multiple discrete hard drives thus partitioning single drive failures (low cost, the garage is a separate building, the host machine is an arm board that actually turns off HD PSU when not backing up, so hard drives are fairly isolated from power spikes).
- I make a monthly incremental backup (three sets) onto an external 6TB usb hard drive encrypted with luks. This drive spends 99% of it's life powered down in a cabinet at my office at work. It is protected against theft, fire, electrical spikes, etc... by my employer.
- The is not a *ucking cloud anywhere in this picture. I can get access to my backups within ~1hr in worst case (round trip drive to office to pickup my drive).
You Kids need to learn how to take care of your shit - now get off my lawn!!