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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lvcrmnr on 2024-08-27 12:36:37.

Hi,

I want to add a third backup physical copy to my data collection, and I will have to buy an HDD and copy the whole 3 TB of it.

I've always been simple and newbie to this, and would just select a couple of directories (not the whole 3 TB thing) and copy-paste using Windows File Explorer and then check if the size and number of files is the same.

Is it bad? I heard it might be less reliable to act like this. Do you suggest a file manager software? BE AWARE these files are not subject to be updated, so I don't have to overwrite them...I just dump my phone storage of trips, photos, videos, etc on my drives and then delete phone storage. Been doing this since 2010 and I really care for almost 15 years of my memories.

Maybe I should start doing checksum also? But wouldn't it be done manualy file by file?

Thanks in advance!

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