Many people have been talking about deleting their #Reddit account and posts because they hate what the Reddit CEO does.
While I welcome a major #RedditExodus (I never posted on Reddit because it's #proprietary), I urge people to #backup their high-quality posts (those that have helped a large number of people) before they delete their account for good.
And then repost your high-quality stuff somewhere else for archival purposes.
According to reporting by The Register, Richard Addiscott, a senior director analyst at Gartner mentioned these stats in a talk this past week at a conference:
-- Just four percent of ransomware victims recover all their data
-- Only 61 percent recover data at all.
-- Victims typically experience 25 days of disruption to their businesses.
It's not clear to me if that is 61% of victims who pay or 61% of all ransomware victims, but reading the stats in context of the article, I'm thinking that means of those who pay. See what you think.
"Syncthing is not a backup!" they said. And I just learned why - the hard way.
Apparently, when moving files around, it can happen that it deletes them first and recreates them in their new location later.
I was reorganizing my files on the remote end when the remote disk failed. My local copy was in the process of mirroring the changes and is now incomplete.
Which means the only intact copy of all my files is on the failed disk. Wish me luck.
"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.
NOUVEAU au Repair café de Forges les bains en Essonne!
On vous explique ce qu’est un « Logiciel libre » et on vous installe Linux gratuitement en moins d’une demi-heure sur votre appareil, afin de prolonger la durée de vie de votre ordinateur ou smartphone devenu trop lent. Le tout par votre serviteur, mais pas seulement ;)
I have published a new blog post with an overview on how to backup your Bandcamp purchases using a version of the bandcamp-downloader Python script that I forked.
Here's a quote from a YouTube video I heard earlier today. 'In the modern age of the internet, we live by the motto that if something is online, it stays there. But the truth is that our creations are bound, sooner or later, to be cast into obscurity and forgotten'. Truer words were never spoken, and that's why, if you come across any you and/or others find valuable, I very strongly urge you to back it up and archive it anywhere you can, in as many places you can, be it OneDrive, Dropbox, the Internet Archive or your own website or file storage server. Let's work together to fight #DataRot and preserve as much of our online creations and discoveries as we possibly can! #data#archival#backup#preservation#DataArchival#DataBackup#DataPreservation
De mobile netwerken in NL zijn erg goed en betrouwbaar, maar wel ontworpen door en voor commerciële bedrijven, met commerciële doelstellingen. Ontwerpen om grote rampen te doorstaan is NIET rendabel, en dat doen #KPN, #Odido en #Vodafoon dus ook niet.
Al na een paar uur #stroomuitval vallen ook de mobile netwerken uit.
Of al meteen als de meterkast van de zendmast bij een overstroming onderloopt. Luchtalarm 96uur. Gegarandeerd. Ook bij overstromingen.
Als de meldkamer door een storing, grootschalige cyber aanval, of een bombardement geen NLAlert kan sturen, kan de brandweer handmatig luchtalarm palen bedienen. NLAlert heeft geen handbediening.
"Luchtalarm wordt weinig gebruikt" Gelukkig maar, ik gebruik mijn brandmelders ook nooit, toch peins ik er niet over om ze weg te halen.
I like to keep only my most current emails in my actual email account, everything else goes into the archives. It presents a neater division of materials for my messy mind.
I export all the emails as .eml files occasionally - in case something goes bad with MailStore's db (it's Firebird and maybe I just don't know enough about it, but I don't quite trust it).
When I'm looking at a backup tool, I want to know how to restore a single file in a given date and time.
Restic and Borg both makes this problematic because you have to first choose a snapshot, and so on. That is not what I want, I want simply:
"restore 2023-09-12T15:00Z /path/to/file"
No extra crap. I don't want to choose a snapshot etc, the tool should find the right snapshot closest to that time and give an option to copy or restore the file.
Heute ist ein wunderbarer Tag um mal wieder (oder auch erstmalig) #Backup|s der eigenen digitalen Geräte anzulegen.
Wende Dich für Fragen des Setups und der Umsetzung bitte an dendie Nerdin Deines Vertrauens!
Auch wenn dieser vielleicht erstmals etwas mürrisch reagiert, weil ständig Leute mit irgendwas ankommen, wird ersie langfristig sehr dankbar sein, dass Du nicht plötzlich und völlig aufgelöst bei ihm*ihr auf der Matte stehst und um Hilfe bittest. 1/4
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.
As the saying goes, "Real BOFH use tar and rsync!"
The blog article is an excellent treatment of using tar along with SSH to effect a reliable backup plan and schedule.
Another couple of great fav GoTo solutions of mine have always been Duplicity and Duply for those not comfortable rolling their own scripts w/SSH, tar, and/or rsync :batman:
Thank you very much for sharing this @nixCraft !!!
Wie bekommt man ein #Android dazu Dateien, vorrangig Bilder und Videos auf ein #Samba 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 #Backup und Netzwerk Zugriff auf die Daten.
Bin dankbar über jeden Hinweis.
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)
YSK The Backup 3-2-1 Rule
Why YSK: If you have digital data that is important, (family photos, crypto keys/wallets...). Back it up and prevent permanently losing it....