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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • Aren’t you scared about loosing your data?

    No. I still have files from 1991. I’ve got files that have migrated from floppy disk to hard drive to QIC-80 tape to PD (Phase Change) optical disk to CD-RW to DVD+RW and now back to hard drives.

    What if I get a ransomwarei don’t realize and all my backups get encrypted too?

    Then you need to detect the ransomware before you backup. I use rsync --dry-run and look at what WOULD change before I run it for real. If I see thousands of files change that I did not expect then I would not run the backup and investigate what changed before running the rsync command for real.

    Or if the backups are corrupted

    I have 3 copies of my data. Local file server, local backup, remote file server.

    I also run rsnapshot on /home every hour to another drive in the machine. I also run snapraid sync to dual parity drives in the system once a day.

    I generate and compare stored file checksums twice a year across all 3 copies to detect any corruption. Over 300TB I have about 1 failed checksum every 2 years.

    and my disks breaks?

    If one of my disks breaks I buy a new one and restore from backups.

    But also I’m afraid about cloud

    I don’t use any cloud services because I don’t trust them.