World Backup Day
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
Ehh... I'll do it tomorrow.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
My life is on a bunch of HDDs dug out of failed laptops with SMART errors some of which have already failed in the past, they are duct taped together and shoved inside a drive cage they don't fit in.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
I never knew we backed up this world. Can we revert to a snapshot from the nineties please?
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
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My life is on a bunch of HDDs dug out of failed laptops with SMART errors some of which have already failed in the past, they are duct taped together and shoved inside a drive cage they don't fit in.
Amateur. Mine is backed up to a massive raid-5 array of hundreds of free USB sticks I got from conferences. When one dies, I can't be sure which it is, so I just add a few more.
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I never knew we backed up this world. Can we revert to a snapshot from the nineties please?
Unfortunately the best we can do is 1939.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
Just have my phone set to syncthimg netween a second drive on my pc and the home folder on the pc rsync to the same drive. I need an external provider to back that up.
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I recently started doing this as well but not sure if it's excessive. I'm beginning to think I need to separate out actual data from ephemeral data (e.g. browser cache, etc)
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I recently started doing this as well but not sure if it's excessive. I'm beginning to think I need to separate out actual data from ephemeral data (e.g. browser cache, etc)
If you're doing incremental backups it should be nearly instant if nothing changes. But yea ignoring garbage like cache is always nice
I don't consider it excessive since stuff like rsync -a --inplace --delete on a giant directory will be nearly instant if nothing changed, even with terabytes of data (of smallish files) since it isn't going to copy anything except changed things.
borg used to have an issue where it took forever even with nothing changed but it looks like it is mostly fixed so not an issue now. I moved to restic backup years ago though (which is basically borg without those issues) also proxmox has the proxmox backup server that does similar for all the vps/containers
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
Thanks for the motivation to make sure my backups (which are totally configured properly) are working.
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Unfortunately the best we can do is 1939.
Yeah, I'm afraid the tech bros cut costs by not saving backups and removing all the old ones. Hell, all our changes are made in prod, no staging allowed here.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
Backups... fine
When's the World "test you can restore" day?
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Backups... fine
When's the World "test you can restore" day?
It on April 1st, but nobody takes it seriously.
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
Do we get discounts for yearly cloud storage plans?
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It's World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.
Even tho it wasn't my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.
Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.
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In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.
Even tho it wasn't my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.
Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.
@irmadlad Yes, and keep a copy offsite! A good friend’s house burned down in the recent Eaton Canyon fire. He and his family lost absolutely everything. Photos, letters, memorabilia — the story of their lives. A devastating loss. He had plenty of backups, but none stored elsewhere and the ones in his house were also thoroughly toasted. Friends are working to find copies of photos, but that is just a fraction of what was lost.
It isn’t hard to do backups, just a chore. I by a thumb drive every few months. A few terabytes is not too expensive and it is small. I backup to it and mail it to a family member. I know it is safe. Daily backups are better but more cumbersome. I back up weekly to hosted disk drives at a small Internet service provider.
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If you're doing incremental backups it should be nearly instant if nothing changes. But yea ignoring garbage like cache is always nice
I don't consider it excessive since stuff like rsync -a --inplace --delete on a giant directory will be nearly instant if nothing changed, even with terabytes of data (of smallish files) since it isn't going to copy anything except changed things.
borg used to have an issue where it took forever even with nothing changed but it looks like it is mostly fixed so not an issue now. I moved to restic backup years ago though (which is basically borg without those issues) also proxmox has the proxmox backup server that does similar for all the vps/containers
I have a delta of about 200mb ± which isn't a lot all considered but it changes everyday. The only regular thing I do is use the browser. I might need to exclude it from my incrementals and only do those weekly.
