Personally, I’ve been using the 1TB WD Passport for a few years and it’s been great.įor comparison, Drop Box would cost $99 per year for the same amount of storage or $150 / year for 2TB where as the the 2TB WD Passport is only $69 once.īut who cares about prices, this isn’t meant to be a post on saving money. Nowadays you can grab a 1TB USB 3.0 external HD for around $55. I just feel like it’s not their business to know my business. I’m not crazy enough to believe Drop Box and its competitors are sitting there waiting for me to upload files and then a team just gets notified with “WAKE UP, Nick just updated some source code. I have nothing to hide but I just don’t like the idea of some company harvesting my private files for profit. You could say I have digital trust issues. I personally feel like most insurances are total scams but unlike most insurance related accidents, data loss without backups is a sure thing. Your HD is going to die, it’s only a matter of when.
Not backing up your important files is asking for trouble. You would lose your entire life’s work in a blink of an eye. Imagine waking up one day to a hard drive crash which resulted in total data loss. Everything from notes, to source code, to video course source files, to business ideas, to pictures and so much more. I have files on my current computer dating all the way back to 2000. How long have you been using a computer for? Quick Jump: Why Not Just Use Cloud Storage? | Backing up to an External USB HD | Creating the Bash Script for Backups | How Fast / Efficient Is It? | Scheduling the Script to Run Automatically
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Here's how to do offline backups with a few lines of Bash. Updated on July 17th, 2020 in #dev-environment, #linux Automatic Offline File Backups with Bash and Rsync Not backing up your files could lead to data loss in the future.
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