Doesn’t sound like backing up, but keeping your stuff massively in sync.
What happens if you discover something is missing or corrupted after 6 months?
What happens if you discover something is missing or corrupted after 6 months?
E.g. if I use some special backup software that creates incremental archives or whatever, and then I die... My family would have absolutely no idea how to access that data. While with a normal NTFS partition and data on an external HDD they could just plug it in some PC and look at the family photos.
People usually do something like keep hourly snapshots for a week, weekly snapshots for a few months and monthly snapshots for a year. My policy with data is similar to real life things: if I didn't notice it gone for a whole year then I probably don't need it.
Are you perhaps hinting at using offline storage for long-term archival? What options are there? Tape? As far as I know, keeping hard disks online is still the best way to achieve this, sadly.