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Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It kills me to see people losing their stuff. Where are their backups, for crying out loud!!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    9/10 people I saw in the store when I worked retail repairing phones never setup any sort of backup for their photos. Never plugged it into their computer never setup Google Photos or iCloud photo backup, nothing.

    99% of those phones with issues were out of storage space because the phone was filled with pictures that existed nowhere else.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    The only photos I backup are my certificates.
    Rest are non-essential and don't deserve more than one copy.

    I recently lost quite a few videos, moving a partition to the left and it didn't matter enough for me to consider backing them up next time.

    The source codes I make however, apart from having them on gitlab, I am also considering keeping a separate drive to store them.
    With patches to other projects, stored as diffs instead of storing the whole project.

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