• uhmbah@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    It kills me to see people losing their stuff. Where are their backups, for crying out loud!!

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      9/10 people I saw in the store when I worked retail repairing phones never setup any sort of backup for their photos. Never plugged it into their computer never setup Google Photos or iCloud photo backup, nothing.

      99% of those phones with issues were out of storage space because the phone was filled with pictures that existed nowhere else.

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      You’d be surprised at how many tech literate folks don’t properly backup even if they know how important it is.

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        The only photos I backup are my certificates.
        Rest are non-essential and don’t deserve more than one copy.

        I recently lost quite a few videos, moving a partition to the left and it didn’t matter enough for me to consider backing them up next time.

        The source codes I make however, apart from having them on gitlab, I am also considering keeping a separate drive to store them.
        With patches to other projects, stored as diffs instead of storing the whole project.