I briefly looked at AWS S3 Glacier storage, thinking maybe having a second cloud host for my backups would be good.
I can't actually figure out how much this will cost me because they charge per operation (you know, like PUT, GET, etc.) in addition to the storage costs (which I easily figured out).
Well, that was fun - thought I'd do a little filesystem cleansing and ended up accidentally (I did not check my work, tut tut tut) removed fedi VM ( I thought it was on a different disk, whoops!) - joy!
#Backups are available of course and restoring now. #Snac2 being the easiest to restore so that's back online first! I've lost today, but that's OK I've been pretty quiet!
Exploring restic for backing up my workstation (to local external volumes and probably "the cloud" too) at the suggestion of a friend. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Maybe just in time, because...
[605358.398403] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 131640760, 1024 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[605358.398428] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 131640760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 88 prio class 2
Now I'm replacing the primary NVMe SSD tomorrow too...
On the positive side, the files reported unreadable were all various things under /work/xilinx/Vivado/2019.2/...
So, if I'm lucky I haven't lost anything important and Vivado has finally proved itself useful... as a 25GB ablative shield for the rest of my project data on that volume...
I have long used backups that are monthly full backups, weekly full, and daily incremental (or sometimes also full if smallish). Yesterday I learned this is traditionally called the “Grandfather-Father-Son” scheme. This was a surprise, at least to me.
Seems a bit patriarchal and has nothing to do with backups. Is there a better name currently in use?
Anyone else use #rclone with #mega? Are your #backups working? Seems mine suddenly stopped on ~28th Feb. It is now failing to log in and hanging up my #RaspberryPi.
I've uninstalled Debian's stable version (V1.60.1+dfsg-2+b5) of rclone and installed from git (V1.66.0). Still having the issue. Tried removing all configs, tried with --debug and --verbose flags both show nothing other than trouble logging in.
I don't have 2FA enabled as it's unsupported on rclone.
Tools used are #restic and #rclone. All data is encrypted client side before being shipped to the cloud.
Comparing up-times, speeds (both down and up), and the correctness of the data stored. The last part was done using a VPS, and the data was found to be identical.
On speed (up and down) Jotta wins, Hetzner comes second, Mega fluctuates wildly.
On up-time Jotta and Hetzner tie, Mega went off-line for me at some points (worrysome)
On price Jotta also wins. Mega comes second, Hetzner last.
So I'll stick with Jotta. It's hosted in europe, it's fast, it's priced decently, support reacted fast when I asked some (noob) questions.
where do people keep online backups of their drives (preferably somewhere low-cost)? how exactly would they sync without needing to reupload huge swaths of data for minor changes? and I guess on that note, what's your general backup scheme? roght now I just... do borg backup to a 2nd drive whenever I feel like it, and don't really sync it anywhere, which isn't really, you know, great.
i need an adhd-proof but affordable incremental backup solution for my computers, where do i even start?
i already was tenatively planning on making a nas, but i need to have some sort of backup software i can set it up wont immediately break if i forget to check if its working. preferably, i would want to atleast take routine backups of my desktop and thinkpad. maybe once in a while take a full, compressed, system image of each.
In 2016, I gave up my Mac in disgust (due to the silly keyboard/ports situation) I took it as a reason to just try other things so I experimented with both #Linux and #W11 (I'm using a W11 device now)
It's time for a new computer and I'm reluctantly going back to Mac. Why? The quality of the apps. The overall quality of BOTH PC and Linux apps are just horrible. I'm still deeply skeptical of #Apple, but not the developers, they are the real heroes.
@scottjenson@John Well, I mean, it's already been done, multiple times… The latest UX-focused "simple #backups for the rest of us / Time Machine alternative" contender is https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/ (based on #BorgBackup, whereas its predecessor https://apps.gnome.org/DejaDup/ was based on Duplicity).
I haven't really started using it (I mean, I already have those 20-years-old rsync scripts, so…) but I'm hearing good things about Pika out there.
"Based on 481 ransomware attacks from the Dutch police and a Dutch incident response party, we arrive at a number of key insights: Insurance led to a 2.8x higher ransom amount paid, without affecting the frequency of payments. Data exfiltration led to a 5.5 times higher ransom amount paid, without affecting the frequency of payments. Organizations with recoverable backups were 27.4 times less likely to pay the ransom compared to victims without recoverable backups.
From the full article, this other finding on #backups may seem counter-intuitive at first:
"Regarding backups, it seems that having recoverable backups leads to a lower probability of payment, observed in only 11% of cases. However, the average ransom paid per attack and the total ransom paid are higher compared to scenarios with other backup conditions. It is noteworthy that victims who lack backups generally pay lower ransoms than those who have backups that cannot be restored, with both the average ransom per attack and the cumulative amounts being lower. One plausible explanation could be that businesses holding data considered valuable enough for ransom payments are generally more likely to employ backup systems, compared to those with less valuable data. The Kruskal Wallis test with null hypothesis that all backups measures lead to same r ransom paid, results in
KW=49.65, df=3, p-value<0.001. This indicates that having backups leads to more ransom paid."
Running out of iCloud storage. I don't want to pay for 2TB, so deleting stuff from my photo library. The originals I imported in, so it's not as though I'm losing anything. But am still exporting them before deletion, just in case. #backups#storage#icloud
This week, our #SysAdmin syllabus covers backups and restores, including use of dump(8), #rsync, and flux-capacitors (e.g., ZFS snapshots, Apple TimeMachine, NetApp's WAFL). We also were supposed to talk about #syslog and monitoring, but honestly, chances are we'll spend most of our time on the #xz#backdoor.
Aktuell sichere ich meine Daten einfach per Restic.
Nachteil:
Auf den Geräten liegen die Zugangsdaten zum Backup.
Wie könnte ich sowas so bauen, dass die Geräte gesichert werden, aber nichts löschen können?
Und es muss verschlüsselt sein. Ich vertraue zwar meinem Speicher-Anbieter und mir selbst Zuhause meine Daten nicht mutwillig zu zerstören, aber wer weiß ob es mal verloren geht.
A dedicated NAS may be highly functional but they are often pretty pricey… You often also don’t get a decent resale value on your recently replaced, but perfectly functional, PC.
There are a few reasons that you may want to use an older PC, but the biggest ...continues