This reminds me to remind people to put their apps on snapshotting filesystems and activate autonatic, regular snapshots. Then you can always go back to a working version when something goes wrong.
This reminds me to remind people to put their apps on snapshotting filesystems and activate autonatic, regular snapshots. Then you can always go back to a working version when something goes wrong.
Vorpal@programming.dev āØ20ā© āØhoursā© ago
Snapshots are great for solving accidental oopses, and for getting consistent backups that reflect a single point in time. But they arenāt backups. If the HDD or SSD dies snapshots donāt help. If the file system gets corrupted snapshots donāt help. If the file data becomes corrupt snapshots donāt help (since they only store a single copy of any version of a file).
So snapshots are no substitute for backups. I run btrfs and I do backups, and I sync those backups to a remote location (look up 3-2-1 backup).
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca āØ18ā© āØhoursā© ago
Snapshots arenāt backup. No question.