[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal do...
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       Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and
       other data?
        
       Open ended questions: where do you store and backup your personal
       data (S3, Google Drive, etc)? How do you run your backups? How do
       you manage encryption keys, etc? What considerations drove your
       solution?
        
       Author : throwaway894345
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-11-15 22:11 UTC (51 minutes ago)
        
       | pwg wrote:
       | > where do you store and backup your personal data
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       | A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC.
       | 
       | > How do you run your backups?
       | 
       | rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron.
       | 
       | > How do you manage encryption keys, etc?
       | 
       | Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup.
       | 
       | > What considerations drove your solution?
       | 
       | Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not
       | ever be the primary backup medium.
        
         | throwaway894345 wrote:
         | Great answers! What do you think about secondary remote backups
         | in case of fire/flood/etc?
        
           | pwg wrote:
           | Acceptable, provided they are encrypted. I'm not in a flood
           | zone myself, so floods have a very remote risk of occurring.
           | Fire is always a possibility, albeit also low on the risk
           | scale. Depending upon your risk tolerance mitigating 'fire
           | risk' could involve backup to a cloud service (#), or backing
           | up to a portable disk that is swapped for another at a
           | secondary location on some periodic basis.
           | 
           | (#) the /necessity/ of needing 'off-site' for mitigating fire
           | risk means one may have no choice but to utilize 'other
           | people's disks' to obtain the 'off-site' aspect. You do have
           | to make sure you can recover the encryption keys for the
           | 'off-site' data in the event of the need to recover using the
           | off-site data, so that adds some complexity to 'key
           | management' (i.e., if all your copies of the keys go up in
           | the fire, the off-site data may as well not exist).
        
       | theCrowing wrote:
       | tar -cvzf - docs| gpg -c > docs.tar.gz.gpg
        
       | tkiolp4 wrote:
       | 1 copy on laptop. 1 copy on external hard drive 1. 1 copy on
       | external hard drive 2.
       | 
       | I make backups from laptop to external hard drives manually via
       | rsync twice per week or so. I don't store personal/sensitive data
       | on the cloud.
       | 
       | On Google drive, iCloud, Dropbox and similars I keep a copy of my
       | mp3s, wallpapers, ROMs, book PDFs, etc. But I don't mind losing
       | these files.
        
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