Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right?
RadDevon@lemmy.zip 1 week agoIf you don’t have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can’t afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.
I believe egress is free on Backblaze B2.
Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.
Good call on this. Curious if you have a procedure for actually doing this. I could just wipe out my system and rebuild it from the backup, but then I’m in trouble if it fails. What does a proper test of a backup actually look like?
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.
It’s even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.