Am 12.11.24 um 11:38 schrieb Bob Williams:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:09:01 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 10:34 PM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/11/24 2:43 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just read a newspaper article about house fires, and it struck me that one of the things that might well be lost in such a mishap would be my financial records etc that are stored on my computer.
Having just lived though this example where my office was lost, offsite backups are critical.
No solution but additional questions and thoughts: I never managed to get reliably into a remote computer (*). Seems I am too stupid for this. So what I do, is doing backups on alternating external disks, which I then physically bring to another place like once a week. I will never have a absolutely recent backup, but at least I will not lose everything... Cloud solutions are not possible for me because I have zero trust in any of the companies that offer this (and also could disappear from one day to the other or change their condition/prices), but also for the sheer amount of data. (*) The problems are not only getting into the remote computer but also the privacy of the computer's owner and mine: Let's say my friend offers me to connect a large HD, encrypted by me, to his computer for my backup and switch it on/connect to the web at agreed times - and I find a manageable way to connect via the web. How can s/he give me access to "my" HD without giving me access to his or her data on his computer? I mean without hardening his settings to paranoid, so that other user cannot read his data, but making his daily life more complicated? Also consider that the remote friend probably doesn't use Linux, but Win or Mac. They can't handle LUKS encrypted disks and in proprietary Non-Open-Source encryption I have not the slightest trust. So I guess I will stay with my sub-optimal solution, unless you make me learn a convincing better one :-) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga Twitter: @Marsfotografo (often explicit nudes) https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com (nudes)