 Hello, and welcome Chris of films by Chris. That's Chris the K films like Chris calm There should be a link in the description of this video to my website if you want support There's also a link to my patreon in there But today I'm just gonna talk about backups and obviously if you watch my channel You're probably someone who realizes the backups are important especially when come when it comes to a Linux system You know as well as I do you can pop into live see and have Linux running on any system And how easy it is to you know backup your config files so Really if you ever trash your system you just you know RM dash RF forward slash as suit or a root and you just wipe your system if you have Regular backups not a problem at all I can literally pop in a flash drive or a CD and get my system up and running and it's usable while I'm installing stuff and as long as my personal files are backed up I can copy them back over and Not only you know photos and videos and obviously that stuff is really important But your config files should be very easy to get your system back up and running and really you know I find so many people out there You know people who say they aren't good with computers. They're very afraid of messing up their system It's like if it takes you more than five minutes to get back up and running at least with a usable system And maybe half an hour to an hour to get it all set up how you like Then you're doing things wrong Backups are the most important thing to relieve stress. You don't have to worry if you have backups secured backups Of your system of your personal files because again, I can teach anybody any of my friends if they have a laptop desktop computer You know I can set it up so that they can plug in a flash if if they ever completely mess up the system plug in this flash drive Boot you know and we can set default boot to the USB drive or to show them what keys to choose to boot from it and they can have a Live CD of whatever distro running In a couple of minutes and at least they have a usable system It may not be completely configured to how they like but they have a usable system and If their files are backed up they have access to them and they don't have to worry so I Backup things regularly obviously. I have certain folders on my desktop Then I have scripts that I run. I have my documents folder I have a video photo folder that I keep my videos and photos in and I have our sync commands that I just Literally I go to the shell and I type DB enter type in my passphrase and it backs up all my videos Or that's all my document stuff to my server and then I do a Photo backup or I actually have a shorter version of that. I think it just phb maybe for photo backup and It backs up all my photos and videos there and I also Regularly back up all my photos and videos to different services You may or may not like that But anything that I don't consider private goes on a YouTube account a Google photo account a flicker account Archive.com, you know if it's not if something I don't consider private which I'm very strict with my private stuff But I also consider very few things private When it comes to that sort of stuff like pictures of my kids at the beach or on a carousel or wherever If we're doing stuff in public it hits public. I don't care But I get there's other people who are sick, but I like those off-site backups So I automatically anytime I take new photos or videos. I Automatically drag and copy that stuff So I have stuff on my computer backed up to my server on my little Pogo plug $8 server that has a terabyte drive in it and multiple other places and then Once a year I take all that stuff from that year and back it up some place And I recently talked about I tried to talk about this, you know, January every year because that's when I do that extra backup So I always have my my desktop backup My Pogo plug backup remote backups of other stuff and then once a year I put everything I used to do it on a CD back in the day Then I went to DVD and there's a year or two where I used Blu-ray burner and then I found that flash drives had become so cheap the last three years or so I just buy myself a 32 gig or a 64 gig flash drive and yes all my videos and photos fit on there I do back in the day back in you know the late 90s or the 2000s I tried to save all my original footage of videos. I did so I did a home video or something and I would keep all the original file. I might compress them down To an mpeg for something or an org file But I would try to keep I don't do that anymore because who cares Once I edit a home video and I try to keep my home video short because nobody wants to watch a 10-minute video or a 5-minute video of Your family, but if I go to Disney World or something or I don't really go to Disney World medieval times or something like that I might do a one or two minute video But if your home videos are longer than two minutes, no one's gonna watch them But you keep them short you can throw them up and show them people will watch them and it saves on your storage But yes, I can save and I take lots of photos and lots of videos. I do compress them but I save them all and Usually it's around 30 to I can fit all on 64 gigs easy But I take that whether it was a CD DVD Blu-ray or now flash drive and I put that another copy of just the last year Stuff marked as that year in a fireproof safe Now I do that and I have every time I mention this to other people I always get criticism CDs are horrible backup DVDs and discs like that they go bad after a couple years and I agree a lot of the CDs I had back from high school. I go to access now and they just they just don't work anymore and it's just you know depends on the quality people didn't realize there that a lot of the the Rightable formats and the quality may vary from brand to brand I always bought the super cheapest and now now that I'm doing flash drives people like Oh flash drives are a horrible way to back up those things go bad all the time You have to realize That one these flash drives, they're not being used regularly. I buy a brand new one I copy the stuff to it. I put it in a safe and hopefully never have to touch it again But it's my offline backup. So My server and my desktop are constantly running if I did accidentally You know delete my whole hard drive. I need those files somewhere else And so I don't I want backups there aren't on a current running system that are offline somewhere So that's what those are for and yeah, I really only do that once a year now But actually I just started doing on my Pogo plug I have a second hard drive that every couple of months I are sink everything over that and then unplug it and put it in a different safe than the other ones So I have two safes in two different spots, you know in case my house burns down They're supposed to be fireproof safes, but whatever My point here is I get a lot of criticism for the media my backup to but my what I'm trying to point out is Usually that's the fourth fifth or sixth the backup. So yeah, may not be the best medium, but I Already had it backed up multiple places different hard drives different locations and what's the rule? It's it's it's 3-2-2 you have three backups on two different types of media And in two different locations. So you want at least three backups You know one might be on a hard drive And then you might have two on flash drives and you have them saved in different spots, but You know even if you're using You know some sort of tape backup like a tape archive to back things up, you know It might not be the best way to back things up But if you have multiple backups hopefully by the time you realize something went wrong with one of them You have multiple ones you can make another copy which actually brings me to another thing something I played with once when I first started using Linux I am I Went through with and the package manager and I would just install a bunch of stuff and just play with every program That's how I learned about a lot of the applications I know about and one I played with once but I never you know use seriously there was a program It's called DV something obviously But if you had a digital video camcorder that uses DV tapes many DV tapes, which I I had a couple back in the day You could actually use it hook it through to firewire and backup your files like a tape archive To the tape on your camera, and you could have it set to display an image I think by default it would show like if you tried to play that that video On the camera it would show just a picture of tux But it was one way to back up your files But also it kind of hide them in a way that people may not realize that there's files on there Because they pop it in and it shows an image I think you might be able to choose your own image too and people think oh It's just a video of an image, but you actually had files hidden on there And I played around when I never used it seriously and you can fit a couple of gigs on a tape But you know nowadays it's again cheaper to buy a flash drive, but Again, I'm just talking now kind of defending Defending my usage of different medium over the years media media media whatever you want to call it medium medium It's like someone who talks to spirits, right? I keep saying medium, but media different types of media But the point thing is to make multiple backups I don't care if you're using floppy disks if that works for you I actually was talking to a viewer of mine In an IRC channel years ago. I don't know. I don't remember the guy's name or if you're watching But he talked about how he was doing there's a project out there where a guy kind of started off as a joke But it kind of became a serious project at one point where you could do is print your files to To paper as backup and it was kind of like it wasn't just like printing text It was kind of like a QR code, but like a full page of barcode stuff And I don't know what's called again It was up on github to where you can actually print your digital files to paper and then later on if there's problem You can scan those back into your computer and restore your files Obviously that would take up a lot of paperwork, but it was one way of backing stuff up You know and I suppose if it was text you're backing up it was compressed But yeah I mean if you have a text file and you want to save it to a QR code and print it out on a file and put That in your safe you could do that. I mean theoretically documents PDFs that aren't image PDFs and text files and I and like CSV files if you export your spreadsheets like that you could theoretically back up all your files as QR codes Print them to paper and put them in a safe too And then you can decode those at any time in the future and have those files back I mean when I said the PDF file, I mean obviously you can convert anything to base 64 and have a text format That would be rather large But you convert your PDF files to text files and all that sort of stuff to text files and then put them in QR codes And you can have you know, I don't know how many QR codes you can fit on a sheet of paper Maybe I don't know 50 QR codes You can have 50 files on a piece of paper that you can scan with your phone and get your text files back Now I'm just getting into ridiculous stuff, but if you want to do it that way I'm not going to criticize you that I just say back it up more than one place, you know And use a format. Oh use a format that is going to be around in years I've mentioned in the past back in the mid 90s I worked at circuit city for those of you who are not familiar because it's not around anymore So he was kind of like a best buy for now for me what best buy is it's an electronic store We sold a bunch of stuff, you know, we had a music section We had a small accessory section and a computer section, but I worked there and at the time No one had a CD burner. It was something that you read about magazines beat on have it and I wanted one so bad and So I went I actually worked as a customer service associate at the front desk. This is back when I'm like 16 or 17 and I talked to the guys computer apartment like oh, yeah, we're gonna be getting a CD writer in We're gonna start selling them really soon. I said you let me know when you have one I will buy it and every day I'd come to work before the store opened walk over and ask them And finally one day I came in they said, oh, yeah, it came in we have one. So I bought it on the spot Before the store opens and they only got one in they they only had one It's not like we had a shelf of them. They had one and I bought it So I'm pretty sure I bought the first CD burner in my town There was at least bought in town Someone might bought one in the magazine or something like that But as far as home usage of someone going to a store buying I I think I claim the title of being the first person to buy a CD burner in Naples, Florida in Collier County, but I went there It was $400 and I got somewhat of a discount it was over $400 I paid around $400 after my discount for a two speed burner. I bought that thing and and I just you know, sorry buying CDs and sorry backing things up to it and so yes I I claim the title of having CBER so I had a CD burner fairly early on before most people did and I used all time and that came with some CD burning software. I got again. This is back in the day I was using windows and you know CDs at the time. I mean now they can hold more I don't know the max 800 900 megabytes But back in the day CDs pretty much you're gonna only get 650 megabytes But it came with compression software that would compress the files allowing you to fit Theoretically one one and a half gigs or 1.3 gigs on a CD compressed and it would split that up over multiple discs And I did that for a couple of backups and what a horrible idea that was because it was this proprietary software in proprietary format and You need that software to decompress them and you need all the discs so I have a couple of discs that were backups of stuff that I have no access to because I Guess I could theoretically if I knew the name of the software I could Get a copy of it and get a copy of Windows 95 or Windows 98 and get it running on there But if any one of those discs went bad the whole thing was lost So I'm pretty sure those files are gone So I don't care what medium you use media you use keep saying medium And I don't know if that's right media you use But don't use something proprietary to back up your files again Don't use anything proprietary in general, but you don't want to be locked out of your backups years from now Anyway, thanks for listening to me talk and I hope that you have a great day