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Jamie on February 19, 2020

The cover image for this post is by Markus Spiske over on Unsplash A Little History Like many people who came of age in the 1990s, I ha...
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Phil Ashby •

Thanks for the reminder Jamie :)

My personal backup and restore testing regime uses rsync and a NAS:

  • everything that matters (family rule) goes on the NAS
  • twice daily: 'rsync --link-dest' copies, from NAS to local USB disk, holding 5 previous syncs to deal with the most common failure - human error :)
  • overnight 'rsync' to offsite archive (VM in Azure) for point in time recovery.
  • restore testing: regular file read runs on offsite (checksum generation)
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Joe Zack •

So much of the data I care about any more is scattered throughout the clouds. I don't directly back up things like my email anymore because it's difficult to even keep an up-to-date inventory, let alone back it up.

Scary!

*googles how best to back-u emails

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Jamie •

Oh most definitely. If it's a webmail service, I let them worry about backing up my emails. The way I see it: if google mail goes offline, then I have slightly bigger things to worry about.