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That then gets backed up to the cloud.
Network backup is better than local backup.
I've had instances where plugging in a drive has hosed a system.
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Your best bet is to not worry about the choice of drives, just use lots of them - they are very cheap after all - and store them in different buildings.
one backup drive is not enough btw, you need at least 2
Many years ago I used to have automated DAT backups, from a machine with mirrored HDDs. Thought I was sorted.
One Christmas morning, the OS corrupted both HDDs at the same time, whilst it was doing a full backup, after it had already deleted the old backup. I had to go back several months to old tapes
Lesson learned.
Normal rules are
Some Enhancements are:
- Mirrored/striped onsite backups - constant or automated
- automated offsite backups
- Set of offsite backups, from different months - in case a corruption lies undetected for a while (e.g. from virus, or corrupted HDD)
- there are many more, this is just the basic stuff
I use a mirrored/striped NAS near the PC, and a 16TB windows automatic backup driveAlso I manually curate backup copies on different themes to 4TB drives to keep offsite
some USB drives are noisy btw
Of course, the relevance of data two years old in an industry which moves as fast as the storage game is questionable, and the relevance of five year-old-data is very questionable. Nevertheless, I still can't bring myself to really trust a WD drive, even after all these years. Too many traumas. Just yesterday I plugged in a new WD external to make a backup - it was the only one I could get my hands on at the time and I forced myself to buy it anyway - and now that the backup is finished I can't wait to make another one, just to feel really safe.