Those who keep another copy of their hard drive (or whatever other backup source) offsite, where is that? Your mommas house? A storage locker facility? At work?
I have offsite location as my cloud cloud backup. That’s basically, it.
Encrypted disk in my desk drawer at work. Contains everything apart from my movie collection. Many of my colleagues have now copied my approach.
In a drawer at work.
Encrypted on Azure archive.
Onedrive for my documents but that is only up to 1 TB, and more for convenience as i have them available everywhere on all devices.
Pictures in the locker at work. = 8TB drive
HDDs in my shed for Movies and Series
Once my shed is rebuild (bricks and mortar), even the Pictures will go there.
The point of offsite is: How far do you want to go? If mayor wildfires, floodings, hurricanes and tornadoes aren’t a thing. Or if you build houses that are not made of toothpicks where you live. 25m away, in a separate building is more than sufficient imo.
you have close to 8tb worth of pictures? well i guess we are in r/Datahoarder
Around 4TB
I take a lot of pictures and tend to keep all the RAW files that are not absolute garbage or test shots. @40-50MB per piece, It goes pretty quick.
Pushing 7TB here. Everything I’ve shot over the last 40 years, both on digital (RAW) and digitized film, plus the scanned slides of about 4 other people and my extensive historic slide/negative collection. I don’t ever trash anything, except for the rare instance that my shutter release gets hit accidentally and I get a burst of 15 out-of-focus boot pictures.
that like 100k pictures damn
Nice try, FBI.
Not today, CIA.
Safe deposit box at a local bank.
Aren’t magnetic forces a concern? Is it SSD or a standard drive?
Not sure what kind of safetybox you got in your bank but over here they are just plain steel containers vary in size depending on what you pay. I got a couple of them though the service becomes less and less common over here. I don’t see how storing drives in there would be a risk, just a hassle to keep them up to date.
Personally I just dropped a Synology at my parents place. They have a 1GB up/down line for watching her youtube video’s and every week of my critical data they receive a copy. Relatively low cost, low power and easy to use.
One copy at my sisters house that is real-time sync. One offline copy at a friends house nearby
My dream setup is two NAS servers, one at my desk, another at my parents house 2000 miles away sitting at the bottom shelf of my mom’s desk.
BackBlaze
Nice try FBI
Safe deposit box, 8TB external drive with encrypted backups of my NAS. Have the same drive locally too and swap them monthly. Current year and prior year folders also get cloud backed up to backblaze.
OneDrive and University server.
40TB NAS in the comms cupboard at work with a 1G symmetrical line. Helps that I look after the network in the office.
Mom’s house. Old pc with a bunch of big usb drives on a high shelf in her basement. Open vpn point to point vpn set up so she can use my nfs and I can send backups.