Things you wish you could say

[RoyalChick]

They say stuff on the net never goes away. Until you lose or accidentally delete it.

I think it is more like stuff on the net never goes away until you need it!

 

[notabitail]

As a photographer, writer, and artist, This is my life's work. Losing it is not an option. BTDT once and I still have a gap from 2002-2005 I will never get back. The cloud backup service I use is cheap insurance and "just works" once set up.

My family needs to get another hard drive to back up the tons of photos we've got and store it somewhere that isn't home. We've got backups here at home but not anywhere else.

 

[notabitail]

They say stuff on the net never goes away. Until you lose or accidentally delete it.

Or until the owner deletes it. I was binge reading Anandtech articles (tech website, there was nerdy stuff I liked there), and one day I went to read one and it was gone. Poof. Gone. That article that I liked about AMD CPU architectures? Gone. Poof. No one else had that in-depthness I liked.

 

[azurbanclucker]

My family needs to get another hard drive to back up the tons of photos we've got and store it somewhere that isn't home. We've got backups here at home but not anywhere else.

<shameless plug>
Backblaze is 9 bucks a month or 100/year. Unlimited storage, multiple restore options. I back up all our machines to one removable drive on my windows box and use that to do my backups from. it's saved my bacon more than once. Super affordable insurance for those things you can't lose.
<end plug>

 

[azurbanclucker]

Or until the owner deletes it. I was binge reading Anandtech articles (tech website, there was nerdy stuff I liked there), and one day I went to read one and it was gone. Poof. Gone. That article that I liked about AMD CPU architectures? Gone. Poof. No one else had that in-depthness I liked.

https://archive.org/

I bet it's saved in the internet archive.

 

[notabitail]

https://archive.org/

I bet it's saved in the internet archive.

It is, it just seems to be quite a bit harder to find what I want. And it's slow.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's going to be a walk in the park, training my dogs to tolerate being vacuumed.

 

[tlcmurphy]

It's going to be a walk in the park, training my dogs to tolerate being vacuumed.

Why???

 

[notabitail]

It's going to be a walk in the park, training my dogs to tolerate being vacuumed.

Hopefully the experience doesn't suck for you.

 

[RoyalChick]

<shameless plug>
Backblaze is 9 bucks a month or 100/year. Unlimited storage, multiple restore options. I back up all our machines to one removable drive on my windows box and use that to do my backups from. it's saved my bacon more than once. Super affordable insurance for those things you can't lose.
<end plug>

Sorry to be dumb - I will hide behind my advanced years for tech ignorance - but is Backblaze a cloud storage thing? If so, isn't it just the same as whatever Microsoft or Google are supplying?
Also, for back up onto a removable drive, do you just get the discipline to back up every day?
As you can tell I have no clue about this but it worries me that so much of my life is now somehow on my computer.