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My home server went down for three days and I had to rebuild from scratch
Last month, the power supply in my home server gave out. I thought I had a good backup plan, but I learned the hard way that my backup drive was plugged into the same machine. When it died, I lost access to everything: family photos, documents, and my media library. I spent the next three days trying to recover data from the old drives with no luck. I finally had to accept the loss and start over from the few cloud files I had. It taught me that a backup isn't real if it's not separate from the main system. Now I use an external drive I unplug after each backup. Has anyone else set up a simple, foolproof backup system they like?
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robin3962mo ago
My old man had a similar scare last year with his tax documents. He kept everything on a single external drive he thought was safe. His cat knocked it off the desk and that was it, the drive just clicked. He spent a small fortune at a data recovery place and only got half the files back. Now he mails a USB stick to my sister every few months as his "offsite backup." It's clunky, but it works.
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Honestly, mailing a USB stick is a new level of old school backup plan. Tbh I'm just picturing your sister checking her mail like "great, another tax document drive from dad." At least the cat can't knock that one off a desk. Ngl though, after losing my own stuff, that clunky method is starting to sound pretty smart.
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