Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.
I never heard of WORM backups, but it sounds interesting. You gave me something to dig into.