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1. You should scrub the metadata locally. Don't depend on a service to do it for you, just because that usually doesn't give you much control.
2. Once you've scrubbed the metadata, you can use any cloud-type service to share the PDF. I'd personally go with something like Backblaze B2 with a public bucket, but that's just because I already use a private bucket there to upload (client-side encrypted) backups.

To scrub metadata, you can use something like pdftk. It's easy enough to scrub the PDF-level metadata (you run pdftk <x>.pdf dump_data_utf8 output <x>.info, edit that file to blank out the InfoValue: stuff, and then run pdftk <x>.pdf update_info_utf8 <x>.info output <x>-mod.pdf drop_xmp), but I can't get it to remove the bookmarks using that method.

Ok, here's what you do in case the computer is totally destroyed.

get on another computer, go to Backblaze.com and either restore the files from there, or have them send you a copy of the restored files. then when you get a new computer, you can install BB and inherit the backup with your new computer and data. without the computer connecting to the service you have 6 months to do this..

If you need MORE than 6 months without ACTIVELY being backed up you can pay for Additional time, there's a 'version history' option that will keep your files up to a year.

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Yev from Backblaze here -> thanks for the recommendation and linking my article. Educating the difference (both are great, but different use-cases) is one of my main goals when I communicate with our customers. We also have Extended Version History which can go beyond our typical 30-day version history: https://backblaze.com/version-history.html (cc: u/dayoffmusician)

/u/brianwski forgot to do the thing where we mentioned Extended Version History which can also help in this situation -> backblaze.com/version-history.html (you can increase the 30 days to 1 year or forever). There are some considerations regarding large external drives but for the most part that covers a lot of the "accidentally left computer off and went on vacation" or "deleted a folder months ago" use-cases.

rclone.org into a cheap but reliable cloud solution (in my case backblaze.com) as someone else already said, there is no 'set it and forget it' backup, but a decently monitored script with some alert only when things go wrong comes close. You can fully encrypt client side, the cloud provider doesn't even see as much as filenames - and it is easy to restore files back to any system you can get an rclone client for.

Unless there is an automated online NAS or server of some kind set up, they will likely still need to put in the work of plugging in and unplugging depending on:

1. If the main computer they use already contains a full copy of all their data, then you could likely get away with the usb hard drive being always plugged in, and being woken automatically on access.
2. If the main computer won't have a full data set, then having only one external hard drive isn't truly a backup, since there's only one copy total. The only way to do an adequate backup is to have the same data on two separate drives, since all hard drives fail, and you need more than one copy. And that would involve manual plugging and unplugging. Keeping both external hard drives always plugged in to the computer is possible, but it feels a little risky to me both as a potential victim of electric surges or as a theft target or simply by being easy to accidentally trip over all three, and hard drives don't like falling.
3. Perhaps one always plugged external hard drive, and simultaneously setting up a free backup software to sync to a cheap online backup server would be the safest. (Backblaze.com, wasabi.com and several dollars per month, Google, Amazon, Dropbox, not sure exactly which big cloud providers give you a certain amount of storage for free).

I highly recommend continous backup systems. I have backblaze. I pay $5 a month for the personal subscription and have unlimited data backup for my desktop.

That combined with my own personal backup and source control, makes it so I never have to worry about my data being lost.

If you wanna use my referral link we both get an additional free month: https://secure.backblaze.com/r/0144f3

Uhhhh, backblaze.com

Unlimited data cloud backup, for what $7 a month? Best thing ever. Life changed.

I now only keep one 10TB locally, that's it. No need for raid, or all that extra bullshit anymore.

this is true but if it's basic mechanical failure of the drive there are fairly cost effective ways to recover. so worth finding a local shop that can try to tackle it but probably not worth shipping it out to the big places unless data is critical and worth many thousands of dollars - in which case you should really think your choices of not having a backup for an external drive with 'super valuable data'. in any case if you are looking for very affordable online backup check out backblaze.com/

Backblaze.com Personal backup, unlimited storage, unlimited file size, unlimited bandwidth. Other than California falling into the sea, it is a great place for cold storage.

Depending how you want to recover data, it might be simpler to use a specialised data backup and storage company like Backblaze. They have enormous sets of disks in multiple raid clusters storing your files.

I use Duplicati for key directories. Each night it does an incremental backup to Backblaze.com. I pay less than $3/month - although that is not for all my data, just directories of important files. I do not back up my MythTV programme recordings.

Whom isn't tight with money during these historic times; times that will be taught to future school children.

You can stretch your buying power, by buying used. Most pro's do a. lot. For if you buy a used set of HS5 or Adam's, and decide down the road that you want to get something better, brands like these hold their value, and you can probably get what you paid for them back, to use for an upgrade for an upgrade! It makes financial sense, as long as you have some assurance that it is what is being represented. Ebay offers such assurance. I'd check REVERB.COM too.

Also, check out Backblaze.com for using an enterprise level cloud service. It is an incredible value at $8/month for unlimited backups, including all external drives, with backups held for a year. So, you can retrieve your file that got screwed 7 months up months ago, but you didn't realize it until now, can be resurrected.

You also get a 10 gig 'storage area' I forgot what they call it, for free.

Also, their backup software takes such little resources, that you may never know it's running. iCloud, which is great, is a relative resource hog.

Some food for thought

If you are worried about cloud backup and restore then these provide S3 compatible storage with quite straight forward pricing:

backblaze.com/b2 (they have download fee)
wasabi.com (they minimum retention policy, you pay for files at least 30 or 60 days even if deleted immediately, no download fee)
storadera.com (absolutely no additional fees)

I can't find anything about iOS/iPhone backups on acronis.com and backblaze.com. I know the Windows/Mac tool iMazing. This uses the libraries of iTunes to do a local backup similar to the built-in backup of iTunes. It is also able to backup all files like music and photos that are accessible for apps by the system. But you could do the same with iTunes.

Some routers support time machine backup - I have a regular external hard drive plugged into my router and back up to it via time machine.

Many NAS devices such as popular QNAP and Synology support time machine backup as well.

Regarding WD My Cloud - I suggest first googling something like 'WD My Cloud slow' and read discussions. I like WD disks, but had very unpleasant experience with their WD Book both usb and ethernet versions in term of VERY slow speeds - after having this problem I looked for resolution and found out that this was a feature...

Another option or additional option could be backup to internet backup service such as backblaze.com and similar.

Shilling: Backblaze.com has unlimited backups for about $6 (or $9) a month per device.

I've used them only for some months, but am extremely satisfied.

It doesn't offer the same "files on all devices" as Dropbox, but it's meant to be a backup solution - not a Dropbox competitor.

wow 25Mbit/sec

If I'm you, I will set the threads to 30. And check the actual upload speed from your Mac, not backblaze.com.

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If backblaze has no limits, you can backup all in one day I think.

Interesting! No need to apologize for pinging, that's why we're here, sorry we missed it! I think Brian is definitely better at answering that question but we do have this blog post (backblaze.com/blog/managing-for-hard-drive-failures-data-corruption/) which talks about it. In terms of B2 Cloud Storage, that's a great way to mitigate against bit rot b/c our system "heals" if it notices the that something on our side is not well (like if a bit flips inside one of our vaults).

I'm not 100% sure how the client on the Computer Backup side handles that, but /u/brianwski might be able to chime in? I think if it's something you're really concerned with, something like B2 is a great way to mitigate against it!

I think the client would see the change and back it up as a changed version in which case enabling Forever Version History would help solve that, but Brian's the expert on the client :D

I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:

• Backblaze.com

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If you're looking to backup one system look no further than Backblaze.

Unless this is different than Dropbox's traditional product it's a Sync product. There may be some protection against corruption or accidental deletion, but that isn't what it's meant to do. Backblaze is a backup product with file and version retention up to a month or a year, depending on what you pay.

They'll also ship you a drive with your files if you need it. If you return their drive soon enough it's free, if you don't you just get a new drive.

As for how long, I just to this from their speed test: "A connection of 73.8 Mbps upload would backup 797 GB in a day." So you should be able to get a 300GB project backed up in around 12 hours. After that incremental backups of project files or exports should go quickly.

I hear you. Our goal is to make sure this doesn't happen, which is why we added the Email Alerts back in 2014 and added the Extended Version History feature last year. I understand that those might not be enough and for people who want an archive we do have B2 Cloud Storage - we even have backup applications as integrations. Those might not work for everyone, but we do provide those options.

Send the drives to a professional data recovery company, like Drive Savers. It might just be a busted PCB, but if it's data that precious, I wouldn't recommend trying to replace it yourself.

In the future, back up your stuff to more than one place. Dropbox/Onedrive/Google drive/Backblaze are good ways to back up data you want to never lose.

Make a copy of Logic in your /Applications folder? i.e. just rename the existing one before installing the new one?

Alternatively, backup your entire computer, which you should be doing anyways... Backblaze is a good option for additional cloud backups but you should always have at least one regular backup (local hard-drive clone) since Backblaze will not backup things like /Applications, /Library, or other preferences.

Arq, Duplicacy are the two that I have used extensively. Both are more than capable.

That being said - you need to bring your own storage (NAS, Cloud, etc.). There’s also Backblaze - unlimited backup for a certain amount per year (less than that 8tb drive).

Technically you could add a partition on your time machine disk, but, you’d risk the data so at the moment that’s not a great idea.

If it can wait for a bit to upload, then be re-downloaded, backblaze, an online backup company, offers a 15 day trial, https://backblaze.com/

You could upload your windows data to backblaze, then when you’re done reinstalling download it back to your system.

Backblaze is a company I personally use personally they’re excellent.

That is a bummer. Best of luck on recovery. I would highly recommend backblaze.com Best online backup service available in my opinion. $5/month with unlimited file size and aggregate. We have 20TB backed up with them and growing.

My advice is to forget Time Machine and go immediately to Backblaze.com and buy a subscription. Runs quietly in the background, backing up your files to the cloud. I've used it for years and wouldn't do without it. I've never had good luck with Time Machine, especially when saving it to a network server.

I self-host on my desktop gaming PC at home. It's Win10 Pro so I run a HyperV VM of Debian Buster and everything (webserver, email, vpn, nextcloud, etc) is dockerized.

I use a backup company called BackBlaze. I backup both the VHDX (virtual harddrive) file containing my selfhosting, as well as all the files/documents/videos on my personal PC. The total space used is around 600GB. For $60/yr I'm very satisfied. This system has already saved me once when my SSD failed!

backblaze.com Unlimited cloud Backup Windows and macOS

$60/yr 1 Computer (includes attached external HDDs)

if u have good enough upload speed

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I backup to another HDD, relatively cheap & reliable.

If I could have aggressive upload bandwidth I would be a backblaze customer.

> I'm using a laptop and keeping my hdd connected for 4 hours is annoying for me.

Yeah, I definitely agree with you there. Recently I have been upgrading my laptops to contain enough disk (SSD) all internal to the laptop so that I no longer need to have an external drive. It makes everything much more convenient.

> If it's not working like this I'm sorry but I can't use your service at the moment

You might want to look into our "Backblaze B2" service, and one of the 100 3rd party integrations. You can find a list here: https://backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html These store files on the IDENTICAL storage as "Backblaze Personal Backup" but have different GUIs that might fit your use model more.

Depending on which tool you use, a file stored in B2 stays in B2 until you ask it to be deleted. In that way it doesn't matter how long your external hard drive is disconnected -> 10 years, 20 years, the copy of the files will always be in Backblaze B2.

Thanks! And if someone delete the main and only bucket by mistake? and if I only use the web interface to upload, download, i guess i can't make an "app key" for backblaze.com.. ?

Sincerely ? Not really. And in case you could : not easily, not everything, not fast, or certainly not for cheap. Though you still can try https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/builds (Recuva) (and the likes). At best, it should be able to fetch back the files that haven't been owerwritten yet with new data, though the previous MBR was deleted in the process of making the recovery.

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For lasting data : have a second backup in the future. And possibly a glacier storage cloud (you might look into backblaze.com, for they're among the cheapests, IMHO).

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Just my 2 cts. Sorry for your loss : I know how bad that hurts.

>Yeah it's all media. Eventually I'll have an offsite backup solution but I cant quite afford that yet. Worst case, most everything here is re-downloadable or re-rippable.

Backblaze is only what, 99$ for 2 years? Get it for offsite. Except for some nastieness when my PC was down for 3 months, it's been flawless.

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They did have a TCPIP issue where it would crash my network drivers, but that was years ago.

You'll probably need to spend a $500-$1000 to use a drive recovery specialist, and they can likely recover the data. See if you can do a disk image clone first, or use a professional to do it for you, since you don't seem to have much tech knowledge (otherwise you woulda known there is no hard drive that is 100% reliable).

In the future, remember these things:

1. Having one big hard drive is great for organizing files, but it will die, sooner or later.

2. Have another external hard drive for backup, one that isn't connected to whichever computer or NAS that the first one is attached to. Update and check your backup every month.

3. Keep another backup that's outside your home, perhaps in a cloud backup service like BackBlaze.com.

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If the data's important, then do whatever you can to protect it.

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is a Cloud Storage platform, so it by itself does not do any deduplication. Some of our integration partners might though, take a look at: https://backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html

That's correct! Our online backup service does allow link-based file sharing, but it's not a collaboration tool. Our B2 service though does have integrations (https://backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html) that might be closer to what you're looking for!

Yeah, I think the same as you. I can't trust Seagate sorry, the only sector where they could be reliable is enterprise HDD, but for what I saw on Backblaze.com annual report, I can't really trust the consumer lineup.

So I'm going with WD Blue 1TB which is half the price of WD Black where I live. Moreover, I compared the performance with the stock 320GB HDD of my PS3 Slim, and it's already 80% faster! http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-WD10SPZX-00HKTT0-1TB-vs-WD-Blue-1TB-2015/m77223vsm2595

Both are WD Blue, but looks like over 6 years the performance was greatly improved, so I guess that's enough for me, I have WD HDD 10 years old still working fine 0 reallocated sectors so that's best solution for me.