Joe DiGiovanna is creating an incredible 30-year time-lapse of New York City; so, if there is anyone to ask about proper file backup strategy, my money would be on him. In this helpful video tutorial, he shares five great tips to ensure you are backing up your files properly and effectively, just in case disaster strikes.
Coming to you from Joe DiGiovanna with B&H Photo and Video, this excellent video tutorial will show you five helpful tips for ensuring your backup strategy is robust and effective. One thing I have caught a lot of friends not doing is regularly backing up their files off-site. Of course, having multiple copies of your data is an excellent first step, but if you keep all those copies in one location, you will be up the creek without a paddle if you experience something like a robbery or flood. I am personally a big fan of Backblaze. It is only six dollars a month for completely unlimited backup, and it has saved me a couple of times when I accidentally deleted the wrong thing. It runs continuously in the background, so I know I always have the most up-to-date backup (though you can schedule it if you want to control your bandwidth more). Check out the video above for the full rundown from DiGiovanna.
Backblaze posted their 2021 SSD findings and SSDs in their operation are failing slightly slightly less, so while 2nd bonus tip has historically been true, as we move forward - less so.
This dude's desk gives me a panick attack.
One suggestion I would give is have different brands of drive for diffrent backups/working drive. A while back I was working on some servers that lost all their data because a firmware bug that crashed the drive head on shutdown. They had multi drive raid arrays, with lots of redundancy. But all failed! Remember you can have hardware failure, environmental failure, malicious dataloss (local and remote) Software failure and company failure (yes your cloud provider could go bankrupt) Its not easy planning for all of these eventualities...
I use backblaze's posted drive stats and buy one that doesn't have issues as they've thoroughly tested all these drives and publish their failure rates. Pretty great resource for buying HDD's https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2021/