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Things you need to tell your kids (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 96 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also: don't wait until you got the perfect setup. A bad/incomplete backup is better than no backup.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 31 points 3 days ago

THIS! RIGHT HERE!

When I was young and naive about digital things, I had NO BACKUP

One day I got a new laptop. Yay me. Transfer all the data from my old hard drive using some jank-ass local network setup because young and dumb about tech still.

Six months go by, and my new laptop shit itself. Still no idea what happened, but it BSODd and a factory reset got it working again.

I still had my old laptop, so after about a week of searching on forums and reading everything I could find about how to build a pc, how laptop internals compare, data transfers, and literally anything I could so I could pull the old hard drive out without damaging anything and get at least some of my data without issue...

I lost 6 months of new stuff on a much more capable laptop, but it's better than losing EVERYTHING.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

This is something I should be doing.

I need quite a lot of space for backups and I don't have enough space for them. I should at least start with partial backups with whatever I can fit in the storage I have.

My weak point right now is off-site, and homelab. My homelab isn't backed up at all, and my personal data is only backed up on-site.

It's better than nothing, but I should be doing better. I work in IT afterall. I think this is in the same vein as the mechanics car....