Had a rock solid system for a few months now. However, today I started a #pika#backup and left the house. When I came back, the laptop seemed fine and Pika reported a complete backup. A few clicks later, however, the machine abruptly rebooted, reported several EXT4-fs errors with bad block bitmap remarks, and finally froze. I don't know, but sometimes #linux seems pretty fragile. ☹️
An Obsidian user on Medium recently lost an entire vault to data corruption because of an encryption plugin.
I’m very sorry this happened to them, and that they didn’t have a backup.
Truly, if our notes in Obsidian can’t function without features that exist only in that app, we’ve shackled ourselves to the wall of a prison without a door.
Always have an exit plan! Always backup your work! And never lock all your data with a key you don’t own.
Wechsel zu neuem Gerät, System (GrapheneOS) bleibt gleich. Hat jemand schon mal Seedvault genutzt, um seine gesamten (App-)Daten inkl. Einstellungen auf das neue Gerät zu kopieren? Wenn ja, wäre ein kurzer Erfahrungsbericht interessant.
"Syncthing is not a backup!" they said. And I just learned why - the hard way.
Apparently, when moving files around, it can happen that it deletes them first and recreates them in their new location later.
I was reorganizing my files on the remote end when the remote disk failed. My local copy was in the process of mirroring the changes and is now incomplete.
Which means the only intact copy of all my files is on the failed disk. Wish me luck.
Is there a #backup ¹ tool for #Linux that, unlike say #duplicity, actually stores incremental diffs for large blobs/files (instead of the whole new changed file)?
My MacOS Time Machine backups are really really slow (1 hour+), using a USB 3.0 5Gbps interface and spinning rust hard drive (8TB, full), even with very small backup deltas from day to day. Sometimes I need to unplug my Mac and interrupt it. Any advice out there? How much would a faster drive help?
#mac users, is there any #BackUp#software that works reliably with a #NASDrive? #TimeMachine keeps failing for unspecified reasons. #ChronoSync, which works fairly well with external drives, is still chugging away after two days with lots of errors and exceptions
Vorrei iniziare ad utilizzare nextcloud per i miei servizi cloud, ma sono indeciso se mettere su un mio server, oppure affidarmi ad un servizio VPS o similare? La mia paura del locale è la possibile perdita di dati (penso sempre ad ogni possibile disatro) #nextcloud#cloud#selfhosting#server#backup
Looking for a backup solution for both Windows and Linux targets (about 20/80% respectively). We're building a new backup server (Currently using BackupPC), and figured this was a good time to start researching other options.
I'd prefer a solution that's on-prem (e.g.no cloud solutions).
If you turn a dragon into a computer program you and up with a sorting, archiving and backuping solution to keep all the files you hoard along your digital adventure tidy and safe.
I’ve been playing around with NextCloud as an alternative to my Google Drive storage. I’ve chosen Hetzner’s Storage Share, which is essentially managed hosting for NextClould.
Does anyone have any suggestions how to back up you NextCloud/Storage Share data to a third party provider? I’m aware they have their own snapshots, but I want some insurance policy in case of account suspension, bankruptcy, or even just me wishing to migrate to a different provider.
If I was self hosting I could just rclone to S3 or something like that, but Hetzner don’t offer ssh access to these, and self hosting seems a lot more expensive.
What are some best practices for setting up your #backup when working with large files locally on your machine?
For example, I'm working with OpenStreetMap data. The planet is 75 GB in size. I don't need to back that up, I can download it again should the need arise.
However, I'm also creating derived data from it, in files with a similar size, and generating them can take hours. I'd like to have a local backup in case of accidental rm, but don't want to clog up my disk with these backups.
YSK The Backup 3-2-1 Rule
Why YSK: If you have digital data that is important, (family photos, crypto keys/wallets...). Back it up and prevent permanently losing it....
3-2-1 Backup Rule (www.starwindsoftware.com)
Something i haven't seen posted here yet, but worth say over and over again....