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What's the best way to manage backup of personal data
My family uses a combination of macs, laptops, windows machines and we store the files and other data on the local drive together with manual moving of files to our google drive which has 2 step verification on there. I need to access these documents when I'm away from my home computers.
I'm always worried that if my gmail account is ever hacked (despite 2-step verification) a lot of personal documents are out in the main domain. They dont contain passwords just letters and other stuff.
I also do use time machine from time to time to make manual backups but no good if there is a fire as its not stored off site. Keeping a portable drive offsite also has its own risks if its stolen.
Perhaps I'm overthinking this for a home user, but how do others (and I mean informed people, not a generalised answer) secure their personal and data and back it up with the need to access it through dropbox or google drive)?
I'm always worried that if my gmail account is ever hacked (despite 2-step verification) a lot of personal documents are out in the main domain. They dont contain passwords just letters and other stuff.
I also do use time machine from time to time to make manual backups but no good if there is a fire as its not stored off site. Keeping a portable drive offsite also has its own risks if its stolen.
Perhaps I'm overthinking this for a home user, but how do others (and I mean informed people, not a generalised answer) secure their personal and data and back it up with the need to access it through dropbox or google drive)?
Look also at idrive.
An option you could consider is using a western digital or seagate nas with raid that can be used as own cloud through the vendor.
Which will provide you access to Data while away.
An option you could consider is using a western digital or seagate nas with raid that can be used as own cloud through the vendor.
Which will provide you access to Data while away.
i also use multiple backups on multiple disks local, connected, and not connected ( the last cannot be accessed!)
storage cost is low nowadays
storage cost is low nowadays
Keeping a portable drive offsite also has its own risks if its stolen.You should encrypt all your offsite storage.
I strongly recommend that you use Bestcrypt for this purpose.
You will probably only need Container encryption.
Check out their excellent free Android encryption programs while you are there.
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Does that mean putting gigabytes of folders into a locker which is just one file? What are the chances of the file locker becoming corrupted then you cannot get access to anything?
Does that mean putting gigabytes of folders into a locker which is just one file?Yes - one 'container' file for enerything!
My largest container is 4 TB. I have it on Drive X:
When I open the container, Drive Y: appears (which has/shows all my folders and files).
Drive Y: is a virtual Drive but appears to be like any other drive. It disappears when you close the container.
So you don't actually "put" files into the container on X: - It's automatically done as you work with Y:
What are the chances of the file locker becoming corrupted then you cannot get access to anything?I've never experienced corruption over 15 years of using bestcrypt.
I did however have two hard disk failures.
Fortunately I always had two backup hard disks available.
(One backup of important data is never enough - You need at least two!)
I don't believe that the use of an encrypted container increases the risk of data loss
beyond the normal risks of hard disk corruption/failure, that we all run on a daily basis.
Always, always have multiple backups. One of the backups should be disconnected and attached periodically to get the latest backup updates.
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Split up your storage to different providers. Put important financial stuff in something like spideroak. Unimportant stuff can go into Google. Maybe get Backblaze as well. You can never have too many backups. Make sure that the passwords are different.