Here’s another link to an explanation:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/definition/3-2-1-Backup-Strategy
Here’s another link to an explanation:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/definition/3-2-1-Backup-Strategy
Good news for Android users: Signal has started rolling out Signal Secure Backups on Android via Google Play for everyone
The new backups are included in Signal version 7.56.10
iOS will follow soon!
https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-backups-another-step-closer-for-android/
Kids, do backups. Proper ones - 3-2-1. Some of you may never had chance to work with "spinners" (mechanical disk drives). They typically gave you time to migrate your data out. SSD dies immediately and then it's just gone. Pictured here is 4TB of VMs from under FreeBSD bhyve NAS server. It was there happily kicking ass at 20:09:09. It was gone by 20:09:11. #zfs #freebsd #backups #redundancy
Restoring data from backups due to my current desktop failing to power off cleanly on Tuesday evening and not starting up on Wednesday morning. Everything seems to be okay so far.
Remember: Backups need to be Automated, Distributed, Secure and Tested, otherwise they're not backups (and use multiple backup software - I have Borg, Restic and tar).
My wrapper scripts are open source:
"Why are so many applications missing from /Applications on my SuperDuper! backup?"
So...they're not. /Applications is a synthsized folder that's made up of two: /Applications, on the Data volume, and /System/Applications on the System volume.
Apple apps, which are part of the OS, are in /System/Applications.
Finder stiches them together on a startup drive: a virtual view of something that's not *really* there. Prove this to yourself in Terminal...
#Signal Secure Backups go to beta testing!
https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-upcoming-android-7-56-release/71434
"It’s been a long time coming, but we finally feel comfortable taking all of our work on the new Signal Secure Backups system to beta!"
NONE OF Y'ALL LOVE ME! I HAD TO FIND SOMETHING ALL BY MYSELF! *pouts*
ok, it looks like RoundSync may be the app am looking for. am testing it right now.
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.felixnuesse.extract/
SPEAKING OF #backups
i need recommendations on a backup app for Android to Linux that is NOT syncthing. had a really bad experience with that after Google caught me by surprise with that Android 11 update that fucked up file permissions. it wiped out all my backups upstream.
Thema #LinuxInstallParty: Wir überlegen gerade bei den @Datenpunks das Ganze demnächst wieder mit einer
#BackupParty zu kombinieren, heißt: Zusammen werden wir schauen, wie eine Datensicherung gemacht wird.
Was sind eure Erwartungen? Kennt ihr gute, möglichst freie und plattformübergreifende Tools für regelmäßige Sicherungen? Gibt es Dinge, die ihr euch dazu schon immer gefragt habt? Oder habt ihr eine tolle Lösung, die mehr Menschen kennen sollten?
James looked at his screen in panicked disbelief. All his files, gone. All backups, gone.
He stumbled into the main room of the house. It used to be the drawing room, but they had come to use it for storing all those boxes, unopened since they had moved in, five years ago. His daughters now called it Dad's Storage Room.
He sat down between the boxes. Diaries of his grandmother. His own diaries from all those years. Books, books, books. He opened one box.
There it was, the cheap volume in shabby green binding.
Wir schreiten auf und ab im reichen flitter // Des buchenganges, beinah bis zum tore, // und sehen aussen in dem feld vom gitter // Den mandelbaum zum zweitenmal im flore.
That is it, James thought. That is what will remain. Paper, print, long-forgotten emotions, tied to pieces of paper.
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The top of the exported file has these lines:
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `databaseName` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci */ /*!80016 DEFAULT ENCRYPTION='N' */;
USE `databaseName`;
If I change "databaseName" to a different name, is that enough for it to restore everything from the export file to a new database of a different name?
Anyone got good suggestions for #Backups of #S3 / #Ceph buckets?
I'd like not to have to download everything every time, and also have multiple backups but not growing without bound (and be able to say "restore object X from date Y").
I'd like to avoid "fuse-mount the bucket and then backup as if it were a fs".
Something like rsbackup (which uses rsync --link-dest meaning you only store changed objects; and that you can safely delete old backups) would be nice (rclone lacks this sort of thing)
#OverUnder 030 with @johnnydecimal !
Already 30 posts!
He shared his views on:
- #Netflix
- #Claude
- #Backups
- #Tattoos
- #Noodles
#blog #fediverse #mastodon #AI #LLM #movies #tvshows
#100DaysToOffload : 079/100
I'm trying to finalize the second part of the 'Make Your Own Backup System' series.
It's long and packed with information, but I won't break it up.
If all goes well, it'll be out tomorrow morning, Wednesday at the latest.
Stay Tuned!
SuperDuper! v4.0 B1 now available with Tahoe compatibility.
Why is it a day late when it was ready a few days ago? I missed the public beta announcement!
https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/v40_beta_1_now_available/
Restic backup is tonight's presentation @PLUG in Phoenix, AZ
We start at 19:00, but please arrive early due to building access
a true cross platform system that allows performing classic full and differential backups.
https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
1702 E Highland Ave
Suite 300
Phoenix, AZ 85016
#Stammtisch is a week from Tuesday
#restic #backups #restores #DataIntegrity #PLUG #LocalGroup @FLOSS_Stammtisch
Indeed.
Back In The Day, I used to sell and install hard drives in computers. The boss had gotten a deal on some slightly sketchy previous-generation disks - ancient Seagate (IIRC) 20MB drives (MFM interface! State of the art at the time was 60MB RLL disks, by Toshiba I think). Those felt spacious in an age of 808[68] computers.
I didn't get my first hard disk until my second Amiga, an A3000. I paid $1,800 for a 540MB drive. In terms of minimum wage at the time, that was about ten weeks of full-time work, before deductions.
My point? I'm with you. It boggles my mind that so many people still trust their data to "the cloud", which as you say is just "someone else's computer", even with the constant stories of accounts suddenly closed without recourse, credentials lost, cloud providers deleting files, and on and on. Storage is dirt cheap these days. At least keep a copy of everything - and I mean everything - on storage media that you own and physically possess.
There's a saying that there are two kinds of computing people: those who have experienced a data-loss incident, and those that will experience a data-loss incident.
Signal is currently testing 'cloud' backups with the staging version of the Android app.
Details:
In fact, the local backup is getting a revamp too! It will gain cross-platform support (iOS <=> Android), changed format (taking seconds rather than minutes) and external syncing tools (like Nextcloud) will be faster too.
#Signal bekommt E2E-verschlüsselte Cloud-Backups, die man nun unter #Android testen kann: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/
Die neuen #Backups sollen dann übrigens auch dann auch plattformübergreifend nutzbar sein, was auch endlich den Umzug der Chatinhalte zwischen Android und iOS ermöglicht.
Auch lokale Backups sollen deutlich besser werden. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass sie dann endlich inkrementell funktionieren.