Off site backup for your existing data, in case of disaster.
Sorry to burn $200, but you’ll thank me later when disaster strikes… living in an area where five neighboring cities all burnt to the ground in the course of 24 months (in the three worst wildfires in California history, back-to-back-to-back)… I have experience here.
Cleared out my store’s three units.
Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place…
… Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB’s. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.
I’m just glad I don’t have more. Then I’d have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I’m just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.
Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.
If you can drop down just 2TB, Best Buy has 18TB EasyStore’s for $199.
There are excellent articles that go over all this. Do a something search.
Bottom line, yes, you should at least do 3-2-1 methodology. More than that is gravy.
I still hope to one day make a desktop OS do full system restore that uses rclone. Break system, buy new one, feed decypt key and server info during OOBE, click go. Desktop restored. Completely.
We can do it. We literally have the technology.
Legally, if they are hosting compromising things of any sort and don’t report you for it they are in big trouble. So expect that.
That’s not true. What keeps Mega from being shutdown (like MegaUpload was previously), is that Mega is carefully following Australian and American laws - which do safe harbor cloud providers that host fully encrypted files.
Now, if Mega receives a copyright infringement report that includes the decryption key… then they are obligated to investigate. This is why pirated files hosted on Mega with the keys posted pubicly, are so often taken down.
It’s not that Mega is decrypting the files on the backend, it’s that content providers are searching for the keys and sending them to Mega when they find them.
Apple considered decrypting iCloud Photos, despite no legal obligation to do so, because of political pressure. They backed down when consumer/EFF pressure changed the narrative.
If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.
The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.