I really need to do a test restore. I’ve been backing my NAS up to B2 for about a year now and haven’t done one yet.
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Cyber@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)
That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).
USSEthernet@startrek.website 4 months ago
Cyber@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I’ve never really understood the logistics of how to do a test restore.
Do you have to buy a 2nd computer?
ThetaDev@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You dont need a second computer, just pop in a second drive
Cyber@feddit.uk 4 months ago
No, you can jusy restore to a second location…it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.
I prefer backing up specific folders rather than “everything”, so it’s easier to test. (I’d just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)
Let’s say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it’s been accidentally deleted… then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 months ago
I just have a smaller dataset using the same settings, which I try to recover a couple of times/year.
It’s not perfect as recovery exercises go … but it feels safe enough for me.