Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has any efficient backup tips, I know storing them within InfinityFree isn’t that great of an idea (especially if the account gets deleted), and keeping them on one PC wouldn’t be ideal as I work from 2 separate PCs, my main one at home, and my Laptop which I carry with me outside of home (work, library, friends house, etc.).
Anyone have any tips on how they keep backups that they would like to share? Thanks!
Personally, I store my backup on my onedrive or google drive (depending which site I’m working on)
Why didn’t I think of that.. Haha
To be honest, sometimes its the most obvious answers that we miss haha. Glad I could help 
Or setup a NAS on your home network and VPN into it when away because why would you trust google with your data?
Or buy The Ultimate Portable Storage Solution * and bring it everywhere you go, no cloud required!
Or just ZIP everything and email it to yourself …
* I don’t know this brand or product, don’t buy it lol. I linked it since it’s huge and has a handle (And is therefore portable, even though that is neither safe nor practical)
Actual recommendation is NAS, GDrive (Or similar), or GitHub (Static public only, don’t leak keys!)
Well thats pretty contradicting huh… Anyways thanks for the help!!
I carry most of my backups on GitHub, mainly because of storage and security. I keep most of them in private repositories.
What are you backing up? If you are talking code/assets, maybe be better to use a DevOps pipeline to store the code/assets and deploy to different environments depending upon which branch you check into (for example, if you commit to development, it gets deployed to development, then you can trigger builds to test and production when required). I like Azure DevOps. I was working on a simple project, as an example:
I believe you may sign up here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/devops/repos/
Or are you talking database?
I don’t. I personally always keep a local backup on my home NAS. But I can’t deny the convenience of google drive to get data between multiple locations. so if google really want to steal my CV, well, enjoy lol
I think that Azure (free for 1 year) asks for a credit card number during acc creation or when setting up repos, which many people don’t like to give.
It depends on the part you doubt them on.
My NAS and my router are both singular boxes in a singular place. If I misconfigure them, I don’t have access to my data. If they break, I need to order new parts and install them at home to get restore data access. And if my house burns down, the data is toast (quite literally).
I trust Google a lot more when it comes to designing and maintaining durable, distributed storage solutions. You don’t need to worry about hardware failure with Google.
On the other side, there is the issue of them spying on your data (but that can be mitigated by encrypting the data before uploading it), or them taking down your account when they feel like it.
If you truly want to be secure, maybe do both?
This is the best solution, have an encrypted backup with a cloud provider like Google or Microsoft, and have a copy (preferably encrypted) on a NAS.
Fake news. I just signed up for Azure DevOps without using a credit card. For general Azure, yes. For Azure DevOps, no.
Both the site and the database.
I usually compress the files into an archive, encrypt it with AES-256 encryption and a password with high entropy that has been randomly generated, and upload it on any cloud storage provider. As long as you encrypt the data correctly, it will be safe (for now).
This poped into my head somehow
Object storage is also very well suited for backup storage. But they just expose an API, so you generally need tooling around it to actually use it for backups.
Technically, they are as durable as something like Google Drive, but there are a lot of options for additional data protection, as well as it being generally more business focused so less need to worry about the company offering it spying on you.
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