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Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by gunpachi to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.

Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?

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[–] gunpachi 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I appreciate your honest answer. I want to completely own my data, so I would not go the Cloud route. After all the Cloud is basically someone else's computer.

[–] nottelling@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The data remains yours if you encrypt it. Someone else's computer saves you all the time and effort of maintaining and monitoring hardware.

You want to use the actual services meant for this. S3 or glacier or something, not just consumer cloud storage like Google drive or Dropbox.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's quite fair, personal preference is an important factor.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

there are many ways to encrypt locally and store the encrypted data remotely; either a container (like veracrypt), or individual files with a file-based encryption schemes (such as cryptomator) or one of numerous backup or sync utilities with built-in encryption.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But if it's encrypted does it matter?

[–] ShadowRam@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ask all those that had shit on Megaupload in 2012.

Encrypted or not. Still lost.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah. It should not be your only backup, but it can be one of them.

[–] nottelling@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Lol imagine ever having considered megaupload as your backup solution.