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Lazy solution here that has worked fine forever through a complete hardware failure and burglary. Scratch disk inside desktop. External disk kept in house. External disk kept off site. All external disks are Samsung T7 Shield.

Robocopy /MIR daily to scratch or after I’ve done something significant. Weekly to external disk. Swap external disk offsite every 1 month.



> All external disks are Samsung T7 Shield

And make sure to use at least a different batch, or better a different model. Same batch or same model tend to fail at the same time (usually if you need to restore data and the disk is under heavy load).


Not a terrible idea that. Thank you. I will check dates, firmware versions and serial numbers to see.




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