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backups (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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A social media post by @brankopetric00. "A backup isn't a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it's just a very expensive file upload called 'Schrödinger's Data'."
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

Sure, if my active drives died after this swap, and I had to restore from the old, now backup, drive, I’d be back at the operational state I was at the time of the backup.

That tracks.

It still doesn’t run anything tho. It’s just a drive. It doesn’t house an os or anything, just files that aren’t restricted in any way.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    IMHO there is no point backing up an OS drive, just rebuild it*.

    Data is the important thing to back up because you usually can't regenerate it.

    * the corollary here is that you've backed up the configuration required to rebuild the OS.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    I wouldn’t, I keep all of my data separate from my OS drive entirely so I can reformat or install a new OS whenever I feel like.. nasty old habit from bootleg windows 7 well beyond its age, when reformatting every 6 months was good hygiene, before I found Linux.. but gave me great data management insight.

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