RaelwayScot comments on Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016 - Less Wrong
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What is your preferred backup strategy for your digital life?
Before reading the responses, I thought this comment meant "how are you preserving information about yourself so that an upload copy of you could eventually be constructed".
An online automatic backup service (www.code42.com/crashplan)
I use mega.nz to backup files on my computer. I use the service because it has client-side-encryption and provides 50GB of free storage.
I use Evernote for all information like notes or articles I read that I want to remember.
Anki has it's webserver where automatic updates happen. Gmail also automatically has the data in the cloud.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it" -- Linus Torvalds
External HDD
I just keep anything I couldn't re-download or re-generate on a couple days' notice in my Dropbox folder.