My PC has a specific drive/partition (a single hard drive which has a single large partition)allocated to long-term archival use - in other words, a 'write once, keep forever' policy.
That partition is backed up daily to two separate external USB hard drives using rsync.
That gives three separate copies. One of those copies is also rsynced to a separate laptop, so a total of 4 copies.
I don't store archival stuff like videos, photos, music in my personal directories and scatter them all over the place. An archive is an archive and needs to be centralised and then distributed outwards from there.
Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die
Unfortunately, you can't control posterity from beyond the grave. What you consider priceless is something that your descendants maybe can't wait to get rid of. I learned this lesson when my brother died. I started off trying to keep as much as possible of his stuff, but as I sorted through it I found that it was worthless to me so I ended up discarding about 95% of it. I saw that when I died, somebody else would do exactly the same thing with all of my carefully-hoarded information.
That partition is backed up daily to two separate external USB hard drives using rsync.
That gives three separate copies. One of those copies is also rsynced to a separate laptop, so a total of 4 copies.
I don't store archival stuff like videos, photos, music in my personal directories and scatter them all over the place. An archive is an archive and needs to be centralised and then distributed outwards from there.
Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die
Unfortunately, you can't control posterity from beyond the grave. What you consider priceless is something that your descendants maybe can't wait to get rid of. I learned this lesson when my brother died. I started off trying to keep as much as possible of his stuff, but as I sorted through it I found that it was worthless to me so I ended up discarding about 95% of it. I saw that when I died, somebody else would do exactly the same thing with all of my carefully-hoarded information.