![]() Instead, backup to two separate cloud destinations. The latter one supports erasure coding, which provides improved chances of recovery from bad blocks that will develop.īetter yet - forget about messing with local external hard drives, even if you everything right there is no guarantee your data will survive: it is not feasible to maintain it properly this way long term. As you noticed, versioning by copying modified file to another folder is too naive approach. Any software that has “sync” in it and supports “backup” scenarios does it as an afterthought and poorly. This is why you need versioned, deduplicated backup. You will eventually replicate it to all your destinations and won’t be able to recover uncorrupted version. Think about what happens when one of your files gets corrupted silently.
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