Hi i have a very important Question! i bought alot of daz studiio scenery and i want to back it up
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[Hi i have a very important Question! i bought alot of daz studiio scenery and i want to back it up] But one problem
hardrives don't last a lifetime i need something that will last a lifetime! cause i would hate to lose what i backup on my hardrive!
Does anyone know any solution to this! Please let me know! Thanks so much!
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Well, it depends on how old you are as to how long a lifetime is!
If you want to avoid hard drives of any description, then I'd suggest cloud storage (they are drives but your data is stored in array of them). There are lots of companies out there offering the service but I'd be tempted to pick one of the well-known names for peace of mind that they are unlikely to disappear.
Microsoft's One Drive will give you 6TB of space for $100/yr with cheaper prices if you need less. Weirdly, it's 6 accounts at 1TB each, but it would still do. pCloud will sell you 2TB for a one-off fee of €299. Loads of different deals available from many suppliers.
Still, if you bought an external SSD and rarely used it, keeping it placed away somewhere rather than permanently connected to limit heat etc., you should get 10 years of life from it, possibly more. The other possibility is to use pair of regular, cheap mechanical HDDs in a RAID-1 array inside your PC. They will be visible as only one drive to your PC but the second gets an identical copy of the data put onto the first. Should one drive fail, your data is still available and you need to replace the failed drive to get the redundancy again. If you wanted to do this you'd have to check that your motherboard has this capability; cheaper ones won't.
You can download the zips from your library and upload to a cloud drive or back up to a drive or disk.
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That said, don't look for a single solution as you won't find one - cloud servers go bust or chnage their systems (or up their prices unacceptably), local devices break (or get stolen or burnt). Ideally you should have at least two back-ups, using different methods, or everything that matters and if oen fails replace it as quickly as possible.
I'd chose a few options
Cloud if you must, and there is an argument to use it. I do have a few on there.
I have mechanical and SSD backups; certain files i have even more backups of. Then there are the version installation files - those get backed up too.
I have the manifest file on a drive other than C, and also backed up.
I have a copy of the register settings - well more than one, but you get the idea.
There isn'ta "fire-and-forget" method; securing your files and data is an ongoing process, which applies to many areas and not just Daz (and associated) content.
Being someone who has lost a lot of information through the years, I speak from experience. The only realistic option is redundancy. Have multiple backup copies in multiple formats. Have a backup hard drive, have a backup on cloud, have a backup on SSD, and (although time consuming and somewhat volumous with a big Daz Collection) have a backup on DVD. [yes, DVD - of all the formats out there, that is the one I have lost the least on. I still back up my main working files on it because of that).
Also, keep at least one of those copies away from your home or work (in case of flood, hurricane, earthquake, fire, etc).
Otherwise, everything is subject to failure or eventually becoming obsolete - sometimes without warning.