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    Default Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    I've never backed up any of my data.
    I know, I know, bad Glam.
    I've never lost data, thank goodness, even though I've had to run out of my home due to Earthquakes​, and my apt building catching on fire.
    I even lived outside, keeping my computer in my car.
    I am back to traveling a lot, so I really need to back up 5 years of what's on my computer.
    It has to be a cloud type service? Definitely not a tangible device, because I can't risk losing that too.
    Idk anything about it.
    Thanks in advance.

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    I keep meaning to back up my current laptop and I was about to back up my last laptop when I dropped my fan on the area of the hard drive and killed it...my IT guy was able to recover my movies but not with their titles as they were stored somewhere else. I use an external hard drive, it's a Seagate and not small enough to lose. I won't use the cloud, I don't trust it at all.
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    Default Re: Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    I think alot of people are moving to cloud services but like Classy_Katy I don't trust them nor do I like the idea. I will never use cloud services. They seems hackable, I'm sure external hard drives can be hacked as well but I'm assuming there probably alot harder to hack than clouds. I don't trust these services, data mining is real these days...I don't know if these services will save my data and sell it or what their really doing with it. I also don't like the idea of not physically having my data nor do I like leaving my most important files in someone else's hands.

    Anyways I no longer save things on my computer, I save everything straight to my external hard drive (Toshiba v73600-h 2tb). The only things that are my computer are the necessities like browsers and software programs. In the near future I think I'm going to get a second EHD to backup my first EHD just to be on the safe side.

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    Default Re: Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    I have lots of hard drives, I keep back up of back ups. Some are bigger, non portable ones, and some are portable hard drives.
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    I do not really trust online storage services that much anymore. I used 4shared for years and it never gave me a problem but the changes on the site were a bit much to handle. Some storage sites charge way too much and i cant deal with that. My method of backing up data is a little bit different than most folks.

    I keep an itemized list of my data and my files and then i put it in on my google drive. I manually create an itemized list from scratch....even if its somewhere between 600 to 2000 files. Copy and Paste helps way more than you know.

    I will place data on mini thumb drives. Office depot has great deals on thumb drives. You can get a 128gb usb thumb drive on the office depot website for about $35.

    Staples has a 128gb usb on sale for $37.

    https://www.staples.com/Lexar-JumpDr...roduct_2566935

    If you are running low on the green stuff, office depot has 8gb thumb drives for 6 bucks. Oh and 16 gb thumb drives for about $9 to $10. 32gb thumb drive might run you about

    $18 to $20. Office depot has these little 2 packs of usb's that are about $15. I think a 256gb thumb drive is about $70 at office depot but dont quote me on that...go look it up.

    I got a boatload of thumb drives right next to me. I had some terrible experiences with computers just up and crashing on me and then i lost data...so i had to think of an alternative.

    I dont store things on computers anymore. I cant take the risk.

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    Default Re: Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    I've been thinking about this too. I don't trust a cloud service for the same reasons mentioned above but then I recently saved everything straight to an ehd like Blovely BUT then it died. Can't recover anything from it. All my images, pro shoot images, movies, promo material, accounts, earnings...everything. I'm not sure whether to get another 2 EHD and do a backup of a backup but then how far do you go with that??

    I am really in a quandary as to what to do tbh

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaceyLynn View Post
    I have lots of hard drives, I keep back up of back ups. Some are bigger, non portable ones, and some are portable hard drives.
    Me too. Just in case. None of them connected to my computer either.

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    Default Re: Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    I lose thumbs to easy.
    Plus lots of huge raw video files so 2 tera for me external hard drives

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    A lifetime of content is too precious to lose so just having it one place is risky.

    My content is backed up remotely & locally. Including two valuable cloud storage locations.

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    Default Re: Backing Up Data. Which Method Do You Use?

    Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
    I'm thinking maybe a combo of cloud services, thumb drive, and hard drive kept in my safety deposit box.

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    I don't back up my smut work. My back ups are the actual videos and clips that are uploaded to their various sites, (you know that shit will outlive you and never get deleted, even after a nuclear fallout). I delete all the rest of the uncut footage. Saves me tons of space.

    I do however, back up my personal, family vids and pics onto the cloud and to various hard drives. They are also synced onto my various devices through services like google photos. So I have probably at least 4 duplicates of the same files.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hyori View Post
    I don't back up my smut work. My back ups are the actual videos and clips that are uploaded to their various sites, (you know that shit will outlive you and never get deleted, even after a nuclear fallout). I delete all the rest of the uncut footage. Saves me tons of space.

    I do however, back up my personal, family vids and pics onto the cloud and to various hard drives. They are also synced onto my various devices through services like google photos. So I have probably at least 4 duplicates of the same files.
    Thanks Hyori.
    Speaking of syncing.
    Do you know how I would get back my photos, and videos I accidentally deleted from my Android phone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamourmilf View Post
    Thanks Hyori.
    Speaking of syncing.
    Do you know how I would get back my photos, and videos I accidentally deleted from my Android phone?
    You can check your account to see if he deleted photos are still there in the deleted section. Most cloud services leave deleted files for 30 days before they get permanently deleted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamourmilf View Post
    Thanks Hyori.
    Speaking of syncing.
    Do you know how I would get back my photos, and videos I accidentally deleted from my Android phone?
    https://www.piriform.com/recuva

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    I recently been using 2 computers. All my files are on my harddrive so I've been taking my external harddrive from one computer to another. I got tire of switching the harddrive because sometimes I would forget it and other times I just didn't feel like hooking it up. That lead me to trying programs Synctrayzor and Chrome Remote Desktop which allow me to access the files remotely. However but I got annoyed with both because it created more of a hassle.

    I was sitting here thinking and I randomly wondered if it was possible to make my own cloud storage since I refuse to do cloud storage through any of these companies because of reasons I mentioned upthread. Then I wondered if it was possible to make my external harddrive into cloud storage. I googled both and whatta ya know it is. So I'm going to turn my external harddrive into a cloud via a raspberry pi. Thought I'd post the idea/links if anyone else is interested. Here a few different ways you achieve personal cloud storage.

    How can I cheaply convert a USB 3.0 external hard drive into a NAS server?
    Personal Cloud Storage: What Is It And How Do You Set It Up?
    How to Setup Your Own Personal Cloud Storage
    How to Connect External Hard Disk to Home Network over WiFi without PC?
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    A bunch of thumb drives. Lol. I need yo grow up and get hard drives

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