Are you sure your backups work?
Piotr

Piotr @finloop

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Are you sure your backups work?

Publish Date: Aug 17 '22
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As hopefully everyone, I have backups of all my data. After initial setup, I usually forget about it until something breaks, and I need to restore my data. This post is just a reminder: please check if you can restore your data.

But if you want to know my setup

I settled with kopia.io. It has a nice graphical (and terminal) interface, support for cloud and local storage, encryption, compression and as for now: it just works.
Before that, I used:

  • Duplicati: buggy, my backups broke after few months (problem with cloud connection)
  • Restic: no compression is a dealbreaker for me, as this increases storage costs in a cloud like Backblaze B2

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  • Bobby
    BobbyAug 18, 2022

    Boss: Have you tested our disaster recovery procedure?
    Me: Absolutely!
    ... 2 days later:
    Backup meme
    Source

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