Hey guys, I think it’s the time for me to start doing backups (better later than never I guess) but I’m not sure how my workflow should look like, because I would like to store them in:

  • encrypted in Google Cloud (I know Backblaze exists but I’m already paying for storage on Google so no reason to use and pay for a different service)
  • on external HDD
  • and of course still have them on drivers from which they were backed up

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I know I could use software like Kopia to handle backups for me, but the issue I have this is that I want to backup specific things from specific folders, and the second issue is that I want to backup from 2 drives that I have on my PC and from two OSs (Linux and Windows) that are installed on my PC. So, any ideas how should I handle backups like this? Should I just manually copy everything into the external driver + make second copy of that and use something to encrypt it so it’s ready for an upload to Google Drive.

  • GnomeComedy@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If I were you I’d get the data you want backed up in one place. If you’re dual booting have a separate drive or partition that is a filesystem both OSes can safely read and write.

    Then whatever OS you usually leave running overnight configure that OS to backup your single shared important data location.

    If you over-complicate it, it will blow up in your face someday.