World Backup Day
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Re: World Backup Day
#12Really, world backup day should've been on Good Friday so that world restore day could be on Easter Monday.
Jesus Saves! (and takes daily snapshots which he uploads to a secure offsite location)
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#13I 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…
I like this tool for Restic: https://github.com/emuell/restic-browser
Re: World Backup Day
#14I 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…
> borg (vorta)
So that's like an assimilated Weyoun or what?
Re: World Backup Day
#15A 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?
For static files like photos I hash check drives against each other to check for bit rot. But yeah, for tape based cloud storage I can't think what else to do except restore one file to check I still have access. It's too expensive to restore the whole archive.
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#16The 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.
That's probably a pretty massive download for most people, but I guess well worth it.
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#17Went 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 a…
Definitely. And write things !
Re: World Backup Day
#18The 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.
Nice one - you reminded me to restart my Thunderbird backup of GMail. I've got it setup to use imap to connect to GMail (a couple of different accounts as it happens) so it's got a copy of all my emails and keeps itself up to date efficiently. As a bonus, it's far more capable at deleting old messages if I need to clear some space to keep under Google's limit.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
People always say that but what do they actually mean? Restore one file, check if the backup is bootable in case it should?
For static files like photos I hash check drives against each other to check for bit rot. But yeah, for tape based cloud storage I can't think what else to do except restore one file to check I still have access. It's too expensive to restore the whole archive.
Do you have any automation or scripts for that, or is it usually adhoc?
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#20Really, world backup day should've been on Good Friday so that world restore day could be on Easter Monday. Jesus Saves! (and takes daily snapshots which he uploads to a secure offsite location)
Jesus would restore too.