Comment by BSDobelix

5 days ago

If you need Windows, you can use something like restic (checksums and compression) and external drives (more than one, stored in more than one place) to make a backup. Plus "maybe" but not needed ReFS (on your non-Windows partition), which is included in the Workstation/Enterprise editions of Windows.

I trust my own backups much more than any subscription, not essentially from a technical point of view, but from an access point of view (e.g. losing access to your Google account).

EDIT: You have to enable check-summing and/or compression for data on ReFS manually

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...

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bayindirh  5 days ago

> I trust my own backups much more than any subscription, not from a technical standpoint but from an access one (for example, losing access to your google account).

I personally use cloud storage extensively, but I keep a local version with periodic rclone/borg. It allows me access from everywhere and sleep well at night.

qwertox  5 days ago

NTFS has Volume Shadow Copy, which is "good enough" for private users if they want to create image backups while their system is running.

  • BSDobelix  5 days ago

    First of all, that's not a backup, that's a snapshot, and NO, that's not "good enough", tell your grandma that all her digitised pictures are gone because her hard drive exploded, or that one most important jpeg is now unwatchable because of bitrot.

    Just because someone is a private user doesn't mean that the data is less important, often it's quite the opposite, for example a family album vs your cloned git repository.