RadDevon
@RadDevon@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
If 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?
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
Check out Borgbase, it’s very cheap and it’s an actual backup solution, so it offers some features you won’t get from Google drive or whatever you were considering using e.g. deduplication, recover data at different points in time and have the data be encrypted so there’s no way for them to access it.
I looked at Borgbase, but I think it will be a bit more pricey than Restic + Backblaze B2. Looks like Borgbase is $80/year for 1TB, which would be $72/year on B2 and less if I don’t use all of 1TB.
The vast majority of your system is the same as it would be if you install fresh, so you’re wasting backup space in storing data you can easily recover in other ways.
I get this, but it would be faster to restore, right? And the storage I’m going to use to store these files is relatively little compared to the overall volume of data I’m backing up. For example, I’m backing up 100GB of personal photos and home movies. Backing up the system, even though strictly not necessary, will be something like 5% of this, I think, and I’d lean toward paying another few cents every month for a faster restore.
Thanks for your thoughts on the database backups. It’s a helpful perspective!
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
Much simpler than my solution. I’ll look into this. Thank you!
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
Is your script something you can share? I’d love to see your approach. I can definitely live with a few minutes of down time in the early morning.
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
Had considered a device with some storage at a family member’s house, but then I’d have to maintain that, fix it if it goes down, replace it if it breaks, etc. I think I’d prefer a small monthly fee for now, even if it may work out more expensive in the long run.
Good call on the cost calculation. I’ll take another look at those factors…
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
If that’s the main downside to a full-system backup, I might go ahead and try it. I’ll check out Backrest too. Looks great!
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
Much easier than what I was trying to do. Thank you!
- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 1 week ago:
OK, cool. That’s helpful. Thank you!
I know in general you can just grab a docker volume and then point at it with a new container later, but I was under the impression that backing up a database in particular in this way could leave you with a database in a bad state after restoring. Fingers crossed that was just bad info. 😅
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- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 weeks ago:
Yep! Like I said, freedom is more than one thing. The way this questions is framed tries to put the blinders on and obscure that fact, creating a false equivalency between the freedom to sideload software to some abstract notion of “absolute freedom” which doesn’t actually exist. We’re rarely choosing between absolute freedom and zero freedom, certainly not in this case.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 weeks ago:
Freedom is not one thing. The choice between iOS and Android is not a choice between zero freedom and unlimited freedom. You’re simply choosing which freedoms you want to prioritize.
I’m planning to switch to an Android device running an alternative OS with my next purchase after using iPhone exclusively since the 3g. That’s driven by a change in priorities: I want the freedom that comes from using a phone that isn’t a surveillance and advertising vehicle. For years now though, I’ve been enjoying the freedom of knowing my phone will continue to receive updates for a minimum of 5 years after I buy it new while some of my Android friends will be lucky if they get two.
- Comment on This farming sim sits at the bottom of your screen while you kid yourself you're doing other things 10 months ago:
When I saw this, I thought it sounded really cool! That is, until I remembered that I literally never touch my Windows machine except for gaming, so, unless I’m going to try to play two games at once (spoiler: I’m not), I will unfortunately never have a use for this. 😅
- Comment on Defederation Results 1 year ago:
I’ve been impressed with the thoughtful and careful way the team handled this. I decided to set up a regular donation on Open Collective as a result. I moved from Lemmy.ml a couple of months back, and this has proven to be a very well-managed instance. Kudos to all! 🙏
- Comment on Annoucement: Upcoming vote on defederation 1 year ago:
If we defederate now, is it possible/does it make sense to re-federate with those instances when the moderation tools have matured?