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The original was posted on /r/hardware by /u/slashfromgunsnroses on 2023-08-08 11:54:59+00:00.

So like everyone else I got a lot of digital photos and documents I would like to keep safe. Currently I got it on my PC and a backup USD harddrive, but there are probably much better practices than this.

I don’t want to overdo this, but also don’t want to do too little.

Things im considering:

• I am probably fine with losing ½ year of most recent data, so I don’t need to do the backup more often than that.
• I want to have backup in two locations in case of fire / theft
• Do I need to do some data integrity checks between backups?

Considering this procedure: copy files to cloud storage that I will pay for (there are some lifetime plans, are these any good?). Copy files to SSD (remember, I will only add files, so no rewriting - think some RAID NAS solution is overkill?)

Edit: posted here in hardware as its also a hardware related question