Your cranky weekly reminder to back up your goddamn computer. Your friendly tech support worker will thank you someday. || Ĉi tiu estas via grumbla semajna rememorigo sekurkopii vian damnan komputilon. Via amikema teknikanto dankos vin iutage.
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@keelanrosa have you got any suggestions on how to backup a computer when you have almost no budget?
(I used to have a backup on a portable hard drive, but it broke recently, and I can't afford a replacement, nor can I afford cloud backups)
@lizardsquid
tldr: scatter your stuff across various free accounts.
this is gonna be inconvenient and time-consuming both for saving and getting later so it might not even be worth it for some things, prioritize the important can't-lose-this stuff.
- Stuff you *want* to be public is easiest. Post it on a site suited to sharing it, make sure you know how to download it again later if need be, done.
- Some backup sites offer limited free accounts (eg Dropbox offers 2GB); never much but better than nothing.
- Old-school cloud backup: Email files to yourself. This was more common back when gMail had unlimited mailbox size, but it's still a way to stretch backup space, especially if you have accounts you don't use often which aren't gonna be filled up otherwise.
- Print/write out things where you need the data but not necessarily the actual file. Best if you have somewhere safe to keep them (eg a bank account password is better kept in a safe than on a post-it note on your monitor).