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How long has it been since you last tested your backups? Honestly?
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The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.
-- Blaise Pascal
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday May 12, @08:28AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Monday May 12, @04:06PM
My company kept changing the repo acccess to make it more difficult to login. It finally got to the point I could not login so I keep everything on a shared drive. I don't test backups. If the laptop dies and i can't populate the replacement I'll retire.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Samantha Wright on Tuesday May 13, @02:07AM (7 children)
Here is the secret to a backup-free life. Divide all your data into three categories;
Everything else is your employer's problem.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday May 13, @02:50AM (4 children)
What do you do with data which cannot be printed, and which is not allowed to touch the cloud?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Samantha Wright on Tuesday May 13, @05:13AM (2 children)
I covered that. It's your employer's problem.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Tuesday May 13, @07:13AM (1 child)
I am my employer.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Samantha Wright on Tuesday May 13, @05:14PM
Hmm... It sounds like it's definitely your problem, then. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 13, @10:07AM
I use a NAS instead of a USB drive (in other words I turn it off if I'm not actively reading/writing).
(Score: 2) by Ingar on Tuesday May 13, @01:44PM (1 child)
Paper deteriorates faster than you can say "bitrot"
Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
(Score: 2) by Samantha Wright on Tuesday May 13, @05:07PM
Acid-free archival paper, properly stored, will outlive your grandchildren.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 13, @04:58AM (3 children)
I voted for "what are backups?" But it is being made clear that backups are what you have when you allegedly resign from a post of control on a website, but still retain the power to sanction and spam mod, and censor everyone. Funny how these things work out. Hi, janrinok! You can block this IP now, I shan't use it again.
(Score: 2, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday May 13, @05:51AM (1 child)
You do realise that ANY community member can moderate you, don't you? The spam moderation is permissible where its use is justified - as in your case.
No-one is being censored, your comments are still viewable by anyone who wants to see them. You are being sanctioned for your previous doxxing.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 13, @09:31PM
IP bans are not based on moderation, in my case, It is "special" admin action, from the elite "janrinok aristarchus elimination squad". Irony is, I am not aristarchus, neither is my IP.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday May 13, @09:00PM
Why does everyone talk about backups (man this is old) [youtu.be] all the time? I think there might be some subtext that I'm missing. Nevertheless, I send this clip to people when they say they work on local files and don't bother to back stuff up.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 13, @01:48PM
The one time preparation first. Organize things so that there are a minimal number (like two) top level folders to back up. (hard Lynx can be useful hear)
Write a script which copies those to an external drive -- over the top of an existing copy on that external drive.
Acquire two pocket drives of different colors. Alternate making backups to each drive weakly.
Now your backup procedure is:
1. Since you last backed up on "blue", plug in the "red" external drive
2. Run your script to back up while you do your ordinary work
3. When it is done, unmount, unplug the drive
Keep your drives in a fireproof box, inside a bigger fireproof box. The paranoid might use more drives and monthly rotate one to a bank safety deposit box.
In order to taste your backups, you simply plug in a drive and inspect its contents. Your most recently modified or created files should be there where you expect them to be.
I know this sounds so basic, obvious and elementary. But it makes the backup procedure so painless that you are highly likely to do it regularly.
The restore process is not painless, but easy. You will no doubt end up restoring some older files you had deleted. But that is better than having lost things.
This procedure isn't for everyone. But I actually do it regularly. It requires no special equipment.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a can opener is a good guy with a can opener.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 13, @03:27PM
I've been using Proxmox Backup Server. It integrates pretty well with Proxmox.
VMs that amount to "clone the template and run Ansible against it" don't get backed up, but I have some weird unmanaged OS VMs that I back up.
(Score: 2) by Kalas on Tuesday May 13, @06:17PM
Lost data could also be thought of as nature's answer to my digital hoarding problem. I have who knows how many terabytes of stuff saved, mostly from youtube, not even 5% of which has even been enjoyed. Partly because I tend to grab entire channels if there's even a couple things that look like they'll interest me, but mostly because there are only so many waking hours I can spend watching stuff. Plus more often than I care to admit I end up rewatching the same old stuff like Trek or replaying the same old games like Fallout New Vegas.
Sure it annoys the hell out of me for a while when I lose something like a channel that has a lot of or only lost content. (Because YT has no problem perma-killing whole channels on a whim with absolutely no recourse or even an explanation of what super sekrit rule was broken.) But TBH if I had enough storage to backup everything I'd surely just fill it all with different crap. Basically the only things I backup across multiple drives are personal documents and notes and channels I've saved that no longer exist or where I have the most complete archive of them available. Things like ASMR channels I know I'll keep listening to again and again.