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Fragile data

believe it’s useful to consider the scope of things we’d like our backups to enable us to recover from. Hardware failure is probably what comes to mind, but the scope of this is quite wide. An external hard drive is convenient for casual backups, but if it’s subject to being moved around a lot then this will expedite its demise. If you back up to an another drive inside your PC, and you also use that PC for high-octane gaming or crypto mining (), then all that heat might end up cooking both copies of your precious data. So if possible we strongly recommend backing up

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