Putting it simply, using Git Annex, you can add files (in particular, large files), that don’t have to be pulled down in every place where you clone the repository. It just can be used to as a really awesome way to track (and copy, check, etc) files across lots of different types of storage. Git Annex is not a backup tool, or a better storage system. Git Annex calls itself a “ stupid filename and metadata tracker”. Git calls itself a “ stupid content tracker”. Yep, even stuff like S3 and Ceph - get your account banned on S3? Your Ceph servers physically catch fire? Yep. This goes for every other storage solution.
You accidently delete a file or folder.Google decides to delete some of your photos, or loses files.Your Google account gets banned, hacked, or locked out.
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How to lose data with Google photos/drive You get bitrot, or ransomware, or you type something stupid and corrupt your files.Your NAS tries to float when your house floods.You spill coffee over your precious NAS.Your power supply blows up and takes the motherboard, controller, or multiple disks with it.They’re not backup solutions - they’re single points of failure with a false sense of security. Don’t talk to me about Google Photos, RAID, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever permanently lost family or holiday photos, thankfully - but so many, including my wedding photos, photos of my newborn baby, if the digital copies are lost, they’re lost forever. This is so important now that so much of the important stuff is only digital. I can’t stop any of that happening again, but I refuse to lose any more data because I thought I could trust the storage.
Busted RAID controllers, and I’ve been permanently locked out of cloud storage access, etc. It pains me that I cannot get back some of my early files from my first PCs and computers. Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels I am paranoid about data loss
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