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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Coping with Data Loss (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is more just a poor me/venting type post. This past week I was locked out of my iCloud and lost the last 2 plus years of pictures. Once I can regain access to my account I will still have some of them, I'm grateful for that but I could kick myself for not backing up the last photos. I'm a busy mom and it was always something I had on my to do list but I never got around to. I'm sick, anxious and can't sleep. This has happened before and I eventually was able to cope and move on but it's so hard. I have 3 children so all these memories are lost. I'm lucky I upload almost daily on facebook so I still have many, many photos there. This will never happen again. What do you recommend I do with my new photos and what's left? Of course I will update daily/weekly to icloud but I would prefer an outside source as well.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get at least 1 old Google pixel (1-5). Free unlimited uploads. Create 5 accounts. Duplicate all the time.
get a backblaze account. Dump there.
Amazon glacier. Cheap store.
get a MS one drive 1TB (maybe you can get some school discounts)
learn rclone and run scripts automatically to upload to all these services.
for all DH- nerds: though I know mom's running Supermicro not everyone has time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So out of touch. A mom of 3 using icloud, and you blab about rclone, amazon glacier and whatever.

Sometimes I feel everybody repeat over and over their nerdy lesson without reading the post, I feel this sub is often useless...