Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

On 11/22/24 5:02 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

But, regardless, backups are critical and it is backups
which saved me much grief.

What is the size of your backups?
I always hesitate it because the amount of material is huge and it takes so much time.
Music alone is like close to one terabyte. I'm not one of those who listens to country music and plays with his "230 grain" and feels he's got the world under his belt. Neither am I some Bozo who plays a Dylan and calls that "culture." The variety of what I listen is remarkable.
And then is literature... Jesus. That's like another two terabytes. I've divided them into three computers. How can one easily back up such things? Cloud storage? The cloud storage I have is matter of gigabytes not terabytes.
Then is history!... I don't even want to get into that.
And then of course physics. There's not a week or so that passes where I don't find it necessary to refer to one or more of those books.
Biology? Biotech? Math? Some chemistry? Some evolution? I have everything that Stephen Jay Gould has published (for laymen), as an example, and I don't want to lose the access to them if my storage crashes. Because I access them every now and then. Now add to this sample, some 200 other collections that I don't want to lose.
How the hell does one back up all that?
Thank god I only have three computer books on my computer. Two for programming and one for Linux. I'm no "DFS". That Bozo even collects usenet posts.
I don't keep movies. When I see one, it is discarded. About 20 years later I might see it again if it was a particularly good movie, but that doesn't happen often for obvious reasons.