Congrats on becoming one of the 5% of ppl who backup, but actually also test them.
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Recently read a comment here: "Think you have a backup? Delete your drives now. If you're hesitant, you don't really have a backup."
As true as that is: I'd be in the "hesitant" category because I only back up my data / containers, not my bare metal system and its config. Do you guys? (Proxmox users will probably do, but what about the rest?)
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Everybody tests their backups. Some people even manage to test their backups before they need them.
How do you check?
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Huge! Feels good, huh?
I have a remote backup of my home partition so I don't loose any documents, videos, etc. How do you test these backups? I can browse them using Pika (GUI for BorgBackup) and I can do an integrity check, is there any more to it? I mean if my drive fails, I just copy those files back into my new drive's home directory. But I don't see how a test on that would be beneficial
What are you using to run backups?
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Question for you, is there an off site backup of your stuff? If there is not an off site back up it aint backed up.
A little while ago there where 3 houses that went up in flames just down the block had the wind been blowing just a little, so many more houses would have gone up but had it blown just a little to the south I am sure my condo complex would have gone up. When the fire fighters told use to get back in to our places but be prepared to move I had all my devices and a few other things ready to go.
I thought how lucky I was to be home and the wind was not blowing, but I realized I needed an off site backup as well.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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nice! for anyone with postgres in the mix, what bit me wasn't the backup itself but the disk. a table in my side project kept one snapshot per minute and never deleted any, the disk hit 100% and postgres went down with a PANIC for like 40 min. now the nightly pg_dump writes to a .tmp, checks it with gzip -t and only then replaces the old file, and the app warns me if the newest dump is older than 26h or suspiciously small. restoring is just loading it into an empty db and starting the app, boring but it's the part you actually want to know works
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