There are four times in my life I have suffered regrettable data loss incidents. The first was when the telephone pole outside our house was struck directly by lightning. Not only was it the loudest thing I have ever heard, the current surged through the telephone line, into the internal fax modem, and fries everything within its vicinity. I was 10. I did have backuos, but only only floppy and they didn't cover every…
Since we’re talking about it: anyone backing up their iCloud photos? If so, how?
Backups Aren't Simple
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#92They are simple.
The issue is companies love to fire QA people who should be the ones testing these.
Microsoft says we don’t need no SDETs, our products can ship full of issues.
What are the hostages, I mean customers going to do about it?
I have no sympathy for any major corp who suffers data loss. Now individuals who lost grandmas wedding photos, that sucks.
But my recovery strategy for that is simple. After scanning I emailed it out to one cousin who emailed them out to a few more. Plus I have a cloud backup ( I have no idea where the the original files are).
Data is meant to be shared after all
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#93When it comes to software, it's almost never simple. What people think of as simple is rarely so. For example: Requirement: "Just copy a file from folder A to folder B." Minimal translation: "Implement the capability to copy any file, in any format and of any size from SharePoint, located at a configurable path, with appropriate authentication and access control checks, then stream it in chunks to a different, config…
Here's a thing: my intent and requirements actually are:
"Just copy a file from folder A to folder B."
All that access control and authentication and symlink nonsense? That's a self-inflicted problem that exists only in enterprise, and shouldn't be assumed - much less created - for regular users.
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#94Huge fan of borg + vorta for backups and time Maschine like „Jump back in time“. Wrote about it years ago: https://simon-frey.com/blog/borgvorta-is-finally-a-usable-ba...
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#95There are four times in my life I have suffered regrettable data loss incidents. The first was when the telephone pole outside our house was struck directly by lightning. Not only was it the loudest thing I have ever heard, the current surged through the telephone line, into the internal fax modem, and fries everything within its vicinity. I was 10. I did have backuos, but only only floppy and they didn't cover every…
Since we’re talking about it: anyone backing up their iCloud photos? If so, how?
From iPhone into local machine through LocalSend or AirDrop, then your usual favorite backup pipeline.
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#96> There are two types of people: those who have suffered a catastrophic loss of data, and those who will.
This is an empirical claim, but is it grounded in reality?
99% of people don't backup, and that's probably the right choice because the risk is low, they can't meaningfully improve their restoration rate themselves and they don't care enough about their data to classify its loss as catastrophic.
When a person hears someone talk about the importance of backups, but also haven't heard friends/family suffer this date, they will rightfully ignore this warning.
Or do we all follow the best practices as it relates to backups, exercise, sleep, nutrition, accounting, house maintenance, ... Etc.
I do not. Backups aren't near the top of that list.
This stuff just isn't very important to most people and that's okay.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mainstream DSLRs with dual card slots came out 22 years ago.
I would hope they have some feature for automatic backup to your phone over bluetooth or such today.
Bluetooth is slow. The transport is 3Mbps at max, if you subtract all the headers from different layers, you may have like 1.5-2Mbps practical transfer speed.
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#99> as long as you run restores every 6 months
uh no, in a company, as a sysadmin, you try your backup files at least every month
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#100There are four times in my life I have suffered regrettable data loss incidents. The first was when the telephone pole outside our house was struck directly by lightning. Not only was it the loudest thing I have ever heard, the current surged through the telephone line, into the internal fax modem, and fries everything within its vicinity. I was 10. I did have backuos, but only only floppy and they didn't cover every…
I would say you didn't get quite the right lesson from the fourth one. Rewritable devices are fine, but have (at least) one backup completely unplugged while you update another backup.