ellane, to random
@ellane@pkm.social avatar

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.

amadeus, to pihole
@amadeus@mstdn.social avatar

The last few days, after almost 3 years, I finally got over myself to re-install our , and and reworked the strategy as well ( and stuff). I am glad that this is finally done. 🫣

wagesj45, to homelab
@wagesj45@mastodon.jordanwages.com avatar

This backup is gonna take a while. And this is only part of one folder.

nicd, to random

I have a home server with various services running (all isolated with different user accounts). The server has a small SSD and a big external HDD, but I'd like to make external backups to my cloud account. The cloud service has a proprietary command line application to sync data, so backups would ideally be date separated compressed tar files that it can then sync. An additional complication are PostgreSQL and SQLite databases that can't just be copied without risking breaking the integrity of the files.

How would you do the backups? Do you have some existing app that you could suggest? I'm sure I can whip up some script to do it, but I wouldn't mind if there was something already made.

adelgado, (edited )
@adelgado@eu.mastodon.green avatar

@nicd
Restic is a command line tool that supports a lot of storage solutions S3, SFTP, DAV, etc. There are some beta UI but I run it in scheduled jobs using a systemd timer. It can encrypt the data. For the database: postgresql have a backup tool to dump the databases to a file that then you can backup with the rest (I keep 7 local copies)

montag, to random German

Eigentlich wollte ich heute mal mit dem Rad eine längere Tour unternehmen, ist mir dann aber doch zu windig. Also werde ich mich stattdessen mal um mein Telefon kümmern und endlich das in die Jahre gekommene /e/-OS (aus irgend einem Grund bekomme ich da seit längerem keine Aktualisierungen mehr ... :undecided: ) gegen tauschen.

Mal schauen, ob ich auf der Checkliste auch wirklich alles beachtet habe damit es danach wieder so funktioniert wie ich es haben möchte :wink: :

  • Fotos sichern
  • Musik ist eh auch auf dem Laptop
  • Daten, Chatverlauf usw. diverser Messenger sichern
  • Syncthing Einstellungen sichern
  • Liste der installierten Apps erstellen und sichern
  • Einstellungen des Launchers sichern
  • Dokumente (inklusive dem Backup Verzeichnis! :wink: ) sichern.
  • Hoffen das ich an alles gedacht habe

hwesta, to linux
@hwesta@wandering.shop avatar

What do folks like for Linux offsite backup providers?

I have a Linux desktop with 1-2 TB of data that I want backed up on someone else's servers. I'm currently using Crashplan but my primary use case is data corruption which leads to lost files, and crashplan won't show me a list of recently deleted files that I need to restore. (also they're more business than individual focused now)

Willing to pay, looking for recommendations.

schenklklopfer, to random German
@schenklklopfer@chaos.social avatar

in Dateinamen sind böse.
So weit so bekannt.

Zwei Leerzeichen hintereinander in Dateinamen sind noch viel böser. Das musste ich eben lernen...

Also zurückspulen und neu schreiben...

michael, to infosec
@michael@thms.uk avatar

Remember guys: hosting in the cloud doesn’t mean you don’t need backups: always have backups that are stored with an independent third party!

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/unisuper-private-cloud-outage-caused-by-google-cloud-issues/

lovisix, to random French
@lovisix@social.zdx.fr avatar

Hey people,

Did you use a cloud backup provider/storage?

If yes, witch one?

Thanks.



Wuzzy, to Software
@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social avatar

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: NEVER, I repeat, NEVER write your next 200,000 words novel in Google Docs. Otherwise you might get rugpulled.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs

It's not just Google, of course. When you trust your data to ANY #cloud service, you can get rugpulled at any moment without warning. Remember, they have the de-facto control over the data, and you don't.

#software #AI #fail #Google #evil #proprietary #rugpull

Wuzzy,
@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social avatar

What I dislike about the Wired story is they focus too much about an AI having screwed up. That's not the real problem here.

The problem is the whole concept of cloud storage: The corporation has full control over your data.

Whether this decision was made by AI or a human doesn't matter at the end.

The solution is simple: Just store your data on your own devices. And make backups. And never trust corporations.

Yeah, the Wired story also failed to brutally mock her for failing to . 😈

loop0, to random
@loop0@freeradical.zone avatar

Continuing my saga, I’ve set sanoid and syncoid on my nas to properly take snapshots of my datasets and replicate to a different media. Next step is configure restic to make regular backups to the cloud. cc: @augustocc

synchron, to android German
@synchron@norden.social avatar

Wie bekommt man ein dazu Dateien, vorrangig Bilder und Videos auf ein Share zu laden? Ich hätte sowas unter "Teilen" in der Galerie erwartet aber scheinbar ist das kein unterstütztes Feature...
Jemand eine Idee wie das geht?
Geht generell um und Netzwerk Zugriff auf die Daten.
Bin dankbar über jeden Hinweis.

borgmatic, to random
@borgmatic@fosstodon.org avatar

borgmatic 1.8.11 has been released with Healthchecks auto-provisioning and a fix for a "data" consistency check error.

Release notes: https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/1.8.11

mirekdlugosz, to linux
@mirekdlugosz@fosstodon.org avatar

What do you use to back up local files from Linux to external hard drive?
I have been using rsnapshot, but maybe there are better solutions out there?
Does anyone have an experience with btrfs and snapshots? Do you trust it?

gnulinux, to linux German
@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de avatar

Duplicati: Datensicherung für Linux, MacOS und Windows

Duplicati ist eine Software für die komfortable Datensicherung, egal ob für Linux, MacOS oder Windows. Es besitzt eine einheitliche Bedienung für alle drei Betriebssysteme.

#backup #Datensicherung #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/duplicati-datensicherung

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