backups ran and tested!

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• Reannlegge@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  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.

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Congrats on becoming one of the 5% of ppl who backup, but actually also test them.

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  • brem@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    5 %, that many?

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    • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are two kinds of self-hosters: those who backup, and those who will start testing em after their first failed restore.

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  • DeckPacker@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tested mine involuntarily. I enabled full disk encryption on my the main drive of my server, ignored all the warnings and then noticed, that the whole drive was formatted.

    Luckily, all the important data was in my backups, I lost some compose files and the database of my paperless ngx seems to be broken (although theoretically, I am shire I could recover that data, I just don’t have that time and there is nothing that important on there).

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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Everybody tests their backups. Some people even manage to test their backups before they need them.

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• Rogue1633@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a 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

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do you check?

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  • a14o@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    rm -rf /

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    • sum_yung_gai@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here, you dropped this.

      –no-preserve-root

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its OK, root was preserved

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Restore a backup and make sure everything is where you left it.

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    • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yep! restore a lxc on the backup machine and shut down the main one for a second

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You reapply/ reload database and do all the recovery procedure on a clean new installation for everything. Disaster recovery is much a thing together with backup. Depends on your infra how to proceed in concrete steps.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What are you using to run backups?

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    proxmox style

    apologies if that is not a lot of info!

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    • Guiorgy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Proxmox VM snapshots and backups, plus proxsave I assume?

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• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Huge! Feels good, huh?

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