Today is World Backup Day!

RV_ · March 31, 2023

From Malwarebytes

What, you didn't know it was World Backup Day? Hmmm, perhaps that's not a surprise. If there was an award for "most overlooked really important thing in computing", backups would win. Every year. To get you off on the right foot we've got three tips to help you backup your devices.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/03/3-things-you-should-do-on-world-backup-day?utm_source=blueshift&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_pro_oth_20230331_promotional_marchworldbackupdayblog_v1_168021964198&utm_content=blog

Chalkie · March 31, 2023

I have a question, who in the heck comes up with all these "days" for everything under the sun?

DJW · April 1, 2023

Hallmark. The have a complete staff setup to think up BS days

Dennis

Chalkie · April 1, 2023

3 hours ago, DJW said:

Hallmark. The have a complete staff setup to think up BS days

Dennis

If there was a card to go with it, I would agree.

RV_ · April 2, 2023

🤣😂🤣🤡

bigjim · April 3, 2023

I am moving so slow these days it feels like I am backing up. Does that count?

RV_ · April 3, 2023

Suuuuure Jim! As long as you are holding your computer when you do it. Don't trip, as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide can cause you to fall.

Ray,IN · April 3, 2023

Well, my 1TB Seagate external HD is my initial backup; Microsoft OneDrive is my backup to my backup. Everything is on both in case my computer pukes or the Seagate dies too. If my computer HD dies, I have a HP 1TB SSD standing by to recover everything.

Now when I die all that dies too.

yargo · April 3, 2023

It is my first time hear about World Backup Day,lol~~

RV_ · April 4, 2023

Yargo,

It is a good reminder to back up. I now run a 1 TB portable SSD on my main three main computers.

Welcome to Escapees Forums! Lots of good info, and good people with a few abrasive types for balance. Just like most other forums.

You will find lots of threads like this where folks throw stones or nay say taking more time to do that than it would have taken to Google it and find it goes way back.

At first I thought everyone was joking but some folks would rather try to rain on your parade than look something up online.

But it seems few did. Here is the history of world back up month and day:

"WORLD BACKUP DAY HISTORY

World Backup Day originally began as World Backup Month, started by a hard drive company by the name of Maxtor which was later acquired by Seagate Technology."

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/world-backup-day-march-31/

Once again welcome!

Edited April 4, 2023 by RV_

sandsys · April 4, 2023

I do a backup whenever my online comics expand telling me it is Sunday. I also backup once a month when Dave hands me the drive to back up to. I don't do daily backups because I don't do anything that often that needs saving. I'm retired.

Linda

RV_ · April 4, 2023

2 hours ago, sandsys said:

I do a backup whenever my online comics expand telling me it is Sunday. I also backup once a month when Dave hands me the drive to back up to. I don't do daily backups because I don't do anything that often that needs saving. I'm retired.

Linda

Linda, pretty much the same as me.

I now have a 1TB tiny portable Portable SSD on each of my two personal systems with everything on them that is on my internasl SSDs, a PNY Elite 960GB and the newest a 1TB Crucial X6 that was on sale @ Best Buy for $59.95. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/crucial-x6-se-1tb-external-usb-c-usb-a-portable-ssd/6457929.p?skuId=6457929

And Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/crucial-x6-1tb/p/N82E16820156275?Description=crucial x6&cm_re=crucial_x6-_-20-156-275-_-Product&quicklink=true

That is a 3TB 3.5" desktop HDD, the PNY Elite 960GB SSD with Micro USB 3 connector on top, a 2.5" Laptop 80GB HDD I'll never use, the Crucial 1TB portable SSD, and a standard size pen for scale.

I keep all of my 1TB and 2TB 2.5" drives in external cases in my desk drawer with USB C and Micro USB 3 connectors, only a few are HDDs the rest SSDs, some in the blue cases, some clear cases and some black cases. 12 TB in those drives.

Below I have all the 3.5 drives in my file cabinet and the big WD Elements external is 4 TB that is 17TB of 3.5" and external HDDs.

2TB of M.2 fresh NVMe drives.

3TB portable SSDs.

That comes to 38TB of storage and backups if I added them up correctly. All my drives work perfectly or they would be destroyed. I am going through them slowly to make sure all my docs, pics, and online webpage backups are saved and selling the rest after a military wipe. That will take some time every day in my drive docks.

Then full system images on the 2.5" SSDs, one for each system. Our two Surface Go 2 systems have only 128GB SSDs and attached micro SD cards of 256GB so one 1TB drive will do the two Go2's. The Surface Pro 7+ has a 1 TB SSD I upgraded it to last year and since prices have come down I may get another 1TB Surface Pro SSD.

Then I need only one more M.2 drive (I have one 1TB spare at the moment) for each desktop to clone those two AIO computers for a fast recovery. Then full system images on the 2.5" SSDs, one for each system. Our two Surface Go 2 systems have only 128GB SSDs and attached micro SD cards of 256GB so one 1TB M.2 drive will be all I need to buy.

So I will have a clone and a full system image for each computer except the Surface Go systems but they will have system images to restore. The drives are not accessible like the Surface Pro 7+, Pro 8,and Pro 9.

So if a drive fails completely I have a clone to pop in, and a system image of each no more than a month old to update the clone when used.

The best longest lasting backup media? The M-Disk, when it really really really has to be saved. Amazing properties and most BluRay burners can do MDisks and cost under $160.

I am getting a BluRay burner with MDisk capabilities and then backing up my data to several of them.

"M-Disc claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last up to 1000 years.^[5] The M-DISC DVD looks like a standard disc, except it is slightly thicker^{[by how much?]} and almost transparent with later DVD & BD-R M-Disks having standard and inkjet printable labels.

Available recording capacities conform to standard DVD/Blu-ray sizes: 4.7 GB DVD-R to 25 GB BD-R, 50 GB BD-R.

In 2012 (2010-2012), the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing (LNE) used high-temperature accelerated aging testing,^[18] at 90 °C (194 °F) and 85% relative humidity inside a CLIMATS Excal 5423-U, for 250~1000 hours with a mix of in-organic DVD+R discs from MPO, Verbatim, Maxwell, Syylex & DataTresor, summary of the tests states Syylex GlassMasterDisc was rated for 1000+ hours, DataTresorDisc 250 hours+ & M-Disk under 250 hours.

In 2016, a consumer Mol Smith^[19] did real world stress testing on the 25GB BD-R M-Disc alongside TDK's standard BD-R 25GB disc, which demonstrated the reliability of M-Disc's molding compared to standard discs; after 60 days of outdoor direct exposure the M-Disk was verified without error, while the TDK disc was physically destroyed.

In 2022, the NIST Interagency Report NIST IR 8387^[20](Page 12), stated that M-Disc is an acceptable archival format rated for up to 100 years+."

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC#:~:text=M-Discs are readable by most regular DVD players,BD-R%2C 50 GB BD-R and 100 GB BDXL.

Safe computing! 😉

Edited April 4, 2023 by RV_