I find those "unselected" photo videos be also important for memories. You might want to just archive the "unselected" ones and open it like a treasure box 10 years later. You might find it valuable and glad you did not delete those 10 years later. Just my 2 cents of opinion haha
You know what? I've got these awesome screenshots of some epic online moments with him. We're talking gameplays, chats, and those hilarious "lol" moments. They're like treasures to me, so I'm definitely gonna hold onto them and bring them up in conversations every now and then. They make for some great talking points, like a conversation piece of art.
Yep, I had a friend that matched exactly as the opposite of a data hoarder.
I asked him why would he behaves that way, not even saving the photos to hard drives when he switched to new phones. He said he hate his past, and there's nothing to look behind from present time. He had only few of his sport car's photos, few of his cat's photos, not much photos even moments with his girl friend. At the age of mid 20s, he has at most 1GB of his valuable data to keep.
The thing is that, I got way more data (estimating maybe 3TB more) of data to be 3-2-1 backed, thus 3x3=9TB total space. My setup here can barely handle 2 sets of my important data sadly.. I'm have to purchase some large disks in order to do that, thus the problem goes back to management (too many disks already)
Thank you for your feedback! I've made the changes to the post as you suggested, and I also included an image of the Excel sheet I created. Take a look and let me know if there are any further improvements I could have made.
As the cold storage drives only connect from time to time, wouldn’t it be challenging for any automations to work in this situation? I definitely want to automate it but it might require some ledgers logging or something else for pending sync tasks.. e.g when drive A and B simultaneously plugged in, sync these set of data.. etc
I truly understood the 3-2-1 backup rule and I'm trying to stick with it. The thing bothers me is that, those drives are all cold storage drives and I only connect those when I have new stuff to backup.
Now I have different sets of data with different levels of backup safety, and it's really hard to manage. I use SyncBackPro to do direct sync of the same copy (In different drives) to keep the data in sync. Since Raid is not a backup, I'd not choose the Raid1 mirroring solution. My drives have historically reasons to be in different sizes... (sigh)
Now the cold storage disks are laying around waiting for me to manually sync data sets one by one, and I already have a hard time keeping track which sets of copy is already on which disk. (I can only connect 2 drives at the same time, maybe NAS could help?)
How can I easily manage the backup synchronization and if not, at least having a better way to mark down which set is already on drive A, B, C at the same time? I hate updating data and synced between drive A and B, then mark it on the folder to remind myself to sync to drive C when I connect drive C in the future? Also hate manual data tracking with excel...e.g
In drive A (folder names I'm using): Data 001 - \[A, B\] -> The data set exist in drive A and drive B Data 002 - \[A, B, C\] Data 003 - \[A, B, D\] Data 004 - \[A, C, D\]
In drive B Data 001 - \[A, B\] Data 005 - \[B, C, D\]