[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Can probably make a trilogy out of it... maybe even a franchise.

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They can say that anyways with poll stations stuffing ballots. How is that different?

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is something we used to deal with regularly on /r/adoption and /r/genealogy

Sounds like an opertunity to build the community here.

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

External Drives come with software now to help people sync the data, (for the less techincal).

You could also just manually copy the data by clicking and dragging.

I'm kind of a command line junkie so I use robocopy in scripts.

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Password management is another big topic that is pretty big.

Something as simple a writing it down on paper in a safe location works for some.

https://bitwarden.com/

https://1password.com/

Are also other options.

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Two drives is a good thing. Always have a copy at a remote location and swap it out rather than shuttling the one drive back and forth.

rclone is a good solution. I use it myself. I also just found out about syncthing which is great for syncing with your phone to something to the local network.

[-] npastaSyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Done. I wonder if you can have a template to auto-populate.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by npastaSyn@kbin.social to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

Why YSK: If you have digital data that is important, (family photos, crypto keys/wallets...). Back it up and prevent permanently losing it.

3 different places its saved to, (iPhone, ICloud, laptop, Facebook, Google, Camera SD, Flash drive...).

2 different media, I would consider iPhone and iCloud the same. Buying two External Drives of the same type and brand too. Why? Consider losing your Apple account or the drive model fails in a year.

1 off site copy. If all your copies are in your house, a flood, fire, tornado, hurricane, EMP... would lose every thing.

0 time to waste. (My own personal add). Do it now. Procrastination is dangerous and is the biggest regret for when things go sideways.

npastaSyn

joined 1 year ago