It’s World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.
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Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors…
Backups… fine
When’s the World “test you can restore” day?
It’s on April 1st, but nobody takes it seriously.
This is a very important point actually. A back up is worthless unless it has been tested.
Yep, hence my comment…
You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.
My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.
That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.
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.
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.
I made this comment on RAID 1 because Raid is a b̷̢̧̯̝͖̱̳͖͔̳̬̮̈́̃̍̈́́ͅa̵̧͓͚͒̕͜͝c̵̫̥̖̈́̆͌̇̌̌̾̓̀͘̚ú̸̥̦͉͚̳̩͌̾̅̂̅͊p̴̢̥͎̩̘̣͙̥̝̣̰͋́̏́̚͝
Just have my phone set to syncthimg between 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.
Sorry to be that guy but replicating / syncing isn’t really backing up.
You need snap shots or versioning.
Thanks for the motivation to make sure my backups (which are totally configured properly) are working. :)
I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.
