Ask HN: What is the best way to backup an external HDD to the cloud?

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by afro88 • 9 years ago

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I have a couple of external HDDs with a ton of raw audio data on them (I used to produce music full time). It occurred to me the other day that if these drives die I have no backups. I would like to archive these into a cloud storage service so I can rest easy. What's the best way?

fmeyer• 9 years ago

I had to come up with a solution to back up my Lightroom catalogs and raw archive hard drives. I dump an image of each and upload it to s3 and gdrive. Pretty manual, but I do it once per year or so.

I choose to dump an image against i.e tar.bz because I can rely on the fs checksum in case of data degradation.

afro88• 9 years ago

Good idea. This will work for me because I'm just backing up what are essentially archives. Thanks!

bartvk• 9 years ago

Might help your responses if you'd mention how much data we're talking about ;)

Without knowing that, I'd say BackBlaze. Just be sure to connect them once a month.

Alternatively, get a Synology with enough disk space, then put it at a friend's house.

PaulHoule• 9 years ago

I like this

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/

Ask HN: What is the best way to backup an external HDD to the cloud?

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