My backup plan for terabytes of data.

[@withrolie]

I had saved ALL my recorded studio music on a single iMac back in 2010. It had been a labor of love... forty years of writing melody's, lyrics, laying down each track with drums, acoustic, keyboards, etc... and a lot of fun being a one-man band with the tech at hand. Then, one unforgettable morning, I opened the front door of my office to a room that was turned upside down. Not only had my instruments been taken but the Mac with EVERYTHING I had worked on for years. I had not backed up anything. Fast forward to 2024... I have redundant backups at every point of data entry... in the cloud, some stashed in emails, on externals, in stone (well maybe not) but ya, BACK UP YOUR STUFF. Yep. Rolie 🙃

[@JackieDElia]

So sorry that happened to you.

[@Tom4ick]

Thanks for the detailed video!! I definitely have to invest in some backup options :)

[@JackieDElia]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.

[@renatoscutube]

"Eventually everything is going to fail" - yes, and I would like to add "including ourselves"...

[@thingsmymacdoes]

Here's another thing to consider... You mentioned incidents like a fire. Will you be able to access your off-site backups and all your accounts if your phone also gets destroyed ?

[@JackieDElia]

It would take a little bit of time, but I definitely would be able to. I would just get another iphone and then restore my data from iCloud. From there, I could get another computer and have a drive sent to me from Backblaze.

[@buntomat]

I use these small ssds for backup my drives. If one is full I take another one.

[@JackieDElia]

What backup program do you use?

[@robertgrenader858]

No USB-connected device, even SSD, is reliable for long-term storage of critical data. I cannot tell you how many Photographers I know that have lost everything because of a removable drive failure.

[@JackieDElia]

@robertgrenader858 Agree 100%

[@Ghennesph]

Time Machine sounds terribly unreliable. Why not just use rsync or deduplicated apfs snapshots locally and gzip the disk image directly over the network? Apfs is a bootleg fork of zfs iirc, so it should have some util for making snapshots. Or, zfs and snapshot versioning on the nas for rsync backup. I wouldn't trust anything that forces you through proprietary blackbox software to save and restore data, as it's just adding more steps, which is more steps that can go wrong.

[@JackieDElia]

I wouldn’t know where to start with those suggestions. That is outside my area of expertise. Thanks for watching.

[@buntomat]

She is on Mac OS, dude.