World Backup Day
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World Backup Day
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#2I was happy with my restic, borg (vorta), and tarsnap backup setup until one day I had to retrieve just one file from the backups and I realised there was no straight forward way to do that in any of these. Now I think I must look for backup which lets be “easily” get my files back and search whether something is there by a certain approximate name among my backups without having me deal with mounts (that too one version at a time) and often fail. It would be nice to just know that file/dir “abc xyz” or with similar names were backed up in snapshots m, n,…, z. Then I can just fetch the version I want.
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#3A gentle reminder to actually TEST your restore workflow.
WBD: since 2011! https://hn.algolia.com/?q=worldbackupday
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#4I was happy with my restic, borg (vorta), and tarsnap backup setup until one day I had to retrieve just one file from the backups and I realised there was no straight forward way to do that in any of these. Now I think I must look for backup which lets be “easily” get my files back and search whether something is there by a certain approximate name among my backups without having me deal with mounts (that too one ver…
Not sure that I understand.
What's hard about `restic -r /media/ehecatl42/t14g3-backup/t14g3-restic-repo restore latest --target /home/ehecatl42/Desktop/nvim-restore/ --include /home/ehecatl42/.config/nvim/`* and just `cp`ing your missing files from that.
* From my recent .bash_history
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#5Very happy with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac. I have a dozen hard drives and SSDs that I rotate and a NAS, but I don’t use that for backup. Never lost a file. But a reminder to myself: I need off site backups.
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#6A gentle reminder to actually TEST your restore workflow. WBD: since 2011! https://hn.algolia.com/?q=worldbackupday
People always say that but what do they actually mean? Restore one file, check if the backup is bootable in case it should?
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#7I was happy with my restic, borg (vorta), and tarsnap backup setup until one day I had to retrieve just one file from the backups and I realised there was no straight forward way to do that in any of these. Now I think I must look for backup which lets be “easily” get my files back and search whether something is there by a certain approximate name among my backups without having me deal with mounts (that too one ver…
Not sure that I understand. What's hard about `restic -r /media/ehecatl42/t14g3-backup/t14g3-restic-repo restore latest --target /home/ehecatl42/Desktop/nvim-restore/ --include /home/ehecatl42/.config/nvim/`* and just `cp`ing your missing files from that. * From my recent .bash_history
If you want to make a point about something being “not hard” maybe using a less messy command would bring that point across better ;)
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#8The website should also encourage users to download a copy of their online accounts (Google Takeout, Facebook data, etc). That's a pretty big omission in 2024. I know plenty of people who have been locked out of their own accounts for one reason or another.
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#9Coincidentally this landed on my weekly backup day.
Using Time Machine weekly to an external SSD. Also a separate flat monthly archive to another SSD. And just in case that is not enough, rclone my documents and pictures library (everything) to S3 monthly too.
This is restored once a quarter into my spare Mac mini.
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#10Went through many iterations over the years. Arq, restic, borg, tarsnap setting up encryption, incremental backups with cronjobs and all the good stuff.
Some years ago I realized that I value the possibility to restore also for people that are not me higher than the nerd factor and security so I just settled with Backblaze as my main backup and Time Machine for local convenience. Carbon Copy Cloned to just clone my attached drives to my NAS if they are attached.
For me backups are not the place to fiddle around with obscure solutions that nobody in my family would be able to use.