Comment by TacticalCoder

> I know not everyone is a computer expert but 1) we are on Hacker News

This. Those arguing it's hard for their grandma: I can understand. Those arguing it's hard for themselves: there are probably better websites to frequent for them and I dispute their "hacker" status.

> Everything is backed up twice and verify every file checksum twice a year.

How do you do the checksum? Mine is added to the filename:

    DSC_00219347-b3-7e282693a4.jpg

meaning that file has a Blake3 checksum beginning with 7e282693a4. I've got both verification script doing random sampling (where at times I randomly verify x% of the files) and my rsync wrapper script doing a rsync dry-run (if the dry run detects a checksumed file that supposedly needs to be rsync'ed I'll verify the checksums and detect the bitrot'ed file if any).

HDDs (offline and both on-site and off-site), SSDs, dedicated servers, server at home running ZFS, ...

I plan to buy used LTO tape gear too.

P.S: I still have source code from DOS stuff I wrote in 1991 so there's that.