coding-mayhem

What if you loose all your photos, yes every single one of your photos in your phone, laptop, usb drive. Even worse imagine loosing every single bit of your digital data. What if you had to start from a fresh laptop, mobile phone. That's a pretty close explanation of what I had to go through in 2010.  Overview  A few years ago, around 2010 to be exact I lost all my data due to a hard drive failure. I was able to recover some of it but to this day regret the incident. I was keeping all my data. on a single usb hard drive. I should have known better. Hindsight is 2020. Once bitten, twice shy, I have rotated between various complex, high maintenance solutions to the current compromise. In this article I will explain how I do this at present day.  Backups vs Snapshots First lets talk about snapshots. Having backups is good but what if you need to recover a photo you deleted 2 weeks ago. What if you wanted to recover a version of a file you changed 2 days ago. This is where sn...