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Word of Warning: Backups (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After a single APT command gone wrong made my Debian installation unusable, I decided to reinstall Linux. I tried to back up everything to my external hard drive, but it kept unmounting, so I elected to use Filen (a FOSS cloud storage provider) instead.

It was only after installing openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma that I realised I hadn't actually synchronised the folder I had moved my backup to; meaning I have lost everything but a single Minecraft world (which I had backed up to a Compact Flash card in February).

Tl;dr: Double check your backups, and use physical storage whenever possible.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a backup until you've proved you can restore!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The trouble was that I could restore; except the only copy of the backup was on the disk itself, and hadn't actually been uploaded to Filen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

3 full backups minimum, one off site. Also handy to grab a disk image occasionally just in case.