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• Re:how CAN you SAFELY verify a backup? Re:how CAN you SAFELY verify a backup? (Score: 4, Informative) by DECbot on Monday November 23 2020, @05:12PM (1 child)

  by DECbot (832) on Monday November 23 2020, @05:12PM (#1080728) Journal

  I'm not a professional and my only backup is spare drive I dumped some files on a few years ago.... So, with those caveats out of the way, here's my suggestion on how it should be done. Have a storage solution for your backups (preferably off site and geographically distant to guard against natural disasters, fire, theft, etc) and a spare internal drive that you image your backups onto. So the procedure would look like:

  1. create images of your drives to your backup storage (external drive, cloud, NAS, etc)
  2. write the backup images onto your spare drive
  3. swap drives
  4. attempt to boot from the spare drive with the images from the backups
  5. if it works and your data is there, it is good. If it doesn't work, check how you're making your backups and transferring images and try again.

  This way, you know you have a good local copy of your data that you can boot from and a geographically remote copy of your data.
   
  If your boot disk is not physically removable, then you made a mistake by purchasing a disposable computer.

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• Re:how CAN you SAFELY verify a backup? (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 26 2020, @01:29PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday November 26 2020, @01:29PM (#1081495) Journal

  This procedure has the disadvantage of wearing out your physical connections. Anyway, why would you backup your boot disk anyway? The OS can easily be reinstalled; it's the data you don't want to lose.

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