Be prepared against data loss and data theft. March 31st is the day to backup and better protect your data.

It’s World Backup Day again. Good opportunity to check if your backup mechanisms work as intended.

  • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    3 days ago

    Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors…

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      This is a very important point actually. A back up is worthless unless it has been tested.

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yep, hence my comment…

        You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.

        My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.

        That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Eh I don’t even need to think about this anymore. I have a cron job that backs up every March 31st.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.

    Even tho it wasn’t my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.

    Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I made this comment on RAID 1 because Raid is a b̷̢̧̯̝͖̱̳͖͔̳̬̮̈́̃̍̈́́ͅa̵̧͓͚͒̕͜͝c̵̫̥̖̈́̆͌̇̌̌̾̓̀͘̚ú̸̥̦͉͚̳̩͌̾̅̂̅͊p̴̢̥͎̩̘̣͙̥̝̣̰͋́̏́̚͝

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    Just have my phone set to syncthimg between a second drive on my pc and the home folder on the pc rsync to the same drive. I need an external provider to back that up.