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Backblaze rclone5/18/2023 ![]() Let's go over how to set each of these up. Files on the NAS (minus the Time Machine backup) are backed up to Backblaze via an rclone cron job.Windows Desktop backs up to Backblaze via their app, and to my NAS via occasionally moving important files over.Windows Laptop backs up to Backblaze via their app.Personal MacBook Pro backs up via Time Machine to my NAS and portable SSD, and to Backblaze via their app. ![]() Not all my machines back up to all the locations (based on the importance of data on each), so it ends up looking like this: Special Case: MacBook backs up to a portable SSD as well. ![]() Backblaze/B2 (depending on the type of machine). ![]() In my situation, the backups are located on: I'll share exactly how I achieved this, and how you can get a setup like this as well so you never lose a file ever again. Situations like that happen often enough that I swore to myself that I would never be like past-TJ, so I abandoned the backup-less lifestyle and created my own personal backup solution loosely based off of the tried-and-tested 3-2-1 backup strategy: What a shame I'll never see that house made of diamond blocks again. It's not rare that I find myself looking for something several years old, whether it be for nostalgia (like a Minecraft world from 2013) or for serious reasons (I implemented something in the past that I would really like to not have to implement again) – only to find out that past-me was awful at backing stuff up and it's lost forever.
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