06-18-2020, 12:12 AM
Orwell would've loved the Internet in general, and "cloud" storage in particular. In 1984, the Ministry of Truth had to round up all of the physical newspapers and edit them whenever the official narrative changed. Now, with most news outlets being essentially just websites, it's a simple matter of updating a record in a database.
One terabyte USB drives are dirt cheap nowadays. I have three of them attached to this computer, on top of the 2TB built-in drive.
Use Linux. It doesn't have to be your main computer, but you need at least one Linux box to keep your data safe from any fuckery that Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon might decide to perpetrate. Practically any old computer will do. This is important because there's nothing hidden in Linux that could fuck you over.
A Linux box and a USB drive are all you need to create an automatic backup. Every Linux distro has a program called rsync for maintaining a mirror image of any directory tree on your system. You only have to copy all of the files once, then rsync will only copy files that have changed since the last time you ran it. It's easy to set up a cron task to periodically update your rsync backups.
One terabyte USB drives are dirt cheap nowadays. I have three of them attached to this computer, on top of the 2TB built-in drive.
Use Linux. It doesn't have to be your main computer, but you need at least one Linux box to keep your data safe from any fuckery that Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon might decide to perpetrate. Practically any old computer will do. This is important because there's nothing hidden in Linux that could fuck you over.
A Linux box and a USB drive are all you need to create an automatic backup. Every Linux distro has a program called rsync for maintaining a mirror image of any directory tree on your system. You only have to copy all of the files once, then rsync will only copy files that have changed since the last time you ran it. It's easy to set up a cron task to periodically update your rsync backups.
