An important question that falls outside of math is: which of these are incremental backups, and which are full backups? Because the two shouldn’t be summed as of they’re comparable: they’re apples & oranges. Also, which of these backups share the same storage medium, because if half of these are all on the same disk and that disk dies, you’ve lost half your backups thanks to one failure.
All backups are incremental, so all local backups together "count" as one full backup and all remote backups "count" as one full backup. And I take a backup of my SSD to a local HDD and from that to a hosted storage solution. I also have an old full backup on an external disk which is in my book shelf. I guess I'm pretty much fulfilling the 3:2:1 rule, right? By the way I literally counted all backups and there are 51 unique (incremental) backups,
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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