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Reminder to backup (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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It only takes a minute of your time to copy your important files to a drive or the cloud. I (potentially) lost one year of progress on a book I'm writing because of my negligence.

So please don't be like me.

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[–] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve never really thought about it outside of the context of code, but I wonder if Git would be handy for this. Plain text and markdown would work perfectly, but there might be better version control systems for things like Office/LibreOffice.

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

For smaller binary files it's fine. I use it for my desktop wallpapers. For large binary files there are a bunch of extensions out there like git-lfs or git-annex. Vanilla git can handle binary files up to a few GB IIRC but it gets unusably slow when you throw multiple large binary files at it.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Many backup apps or scripts create differential backups, so even Office documents and whatever else doesn't play nice with Git is still backed up an additional time when there's any change detected in the file.