Western digital external. My book 20tb or whatever size works for you. I blew through a 12 and 16 filled with photos and videos…
USB 3 and portable; I use exfat as my friend keeps a copy at his house.
And I just rotate through 3. One at home one at work and one with my friend.
FreeFileSync to keep everything updated
No. Not really
For long term storage LTO is the answer.
If cost/ lifetime storage are the only factors
I prefer drives; it is a cost I’m willing to pay as speed is more important, at home —At work we have both because 3-2-1
However I have been looking at tape for home use for some long term storage
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Yep. And even I did it in my post. Notice what is missing?
Test your backups!
Agreed… Yes, and… specific to backups all the encryption….
Your production stuff, yes should be as well
Would that be sufficient
No.
3-2-1
Three copies; your working copy, and a cloud copy, and (as an example) on and external HD that you keep at a friend’s house….
On two separate media… so yes cloud can cover that
One off site. So yeah cloud covers that.
Encryption on your off site copies. Yeah I don’t care if they are Linux ISOs or your grandmas recipes. ENCRYPTED
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
We do a quarterly test.
I have the DB guy make a change, I nuke it and ensure I can restore it.
For us. I don’t work for Veeam, while I don’t like their licensing. Veeam is pretty good
Hth
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah. It is kinda hard.
Backups. First and foremost.
Now once that is sorted, what if your DB gets corrupted. You test your backups
Learn how to verify and restore
It is a hassle. That’s why there is a constant back and forth between on prem and cloud in the enterprise
We make it a drinking game…
Whenever a salespeople or a demo uses weasel language. DRINK!
Thank you. I’m totally going to steal “Tech debt reduction “. Ffs
Sigh, kinda… but don’t forget to factor in your backup costs too
And as soon as that’s working; they’ll break something else
Same OS, you just flip the disk over to install
I don’t use b2, rather; I have a personal account. Backing up 3 computers and they’ve never said anything over years So. Yeah it’s fine
But we’re an EDU!!!
I love pihole, for my family it is better as it helps on all the devices. Being able to block malware and tracking is nice too
There are options good and bad.
I’d back up just the dockers. The OS can be rebuilt easily enough. Yes Rsync the data
Or. Shut it down, pull the SD card, put it in another computer and rip it as an image, Full bootable backup
I would do the first not the second.
Ooo. Thank you.
Kindle screens are very good , but eff Bezos
An iPad is versatile, but then Apple…
But FOR ME, I cannot read books on a computer screen, it is just too awkward.
So yes I iPad.
Yes our servers running esxi boot from an SD card
But. That’s not to say you won’t have issues.
As others are saying distro matters
The single best thing you can do security wise, is to NOT have any personal data on a web facing server.
Separate the data
Rereading it does look like you are doing the things right; so just audit what is on the public side. - your calendar and tasks- cool
Your photo and docs, do those need to be on there?
If they are on a server that is publicly accessible, please move them to a different location
Otherwise you sound like your doing well