94 points

Also: don’t wait until you got the perfect setup. A bad/incomplete backup is better than no backup.

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THIS! RIGHT HERE!

When I was young and naive about digital things, I had NO BACKUP

One day I got a new laptop. Yay me. Transfer all the data from my old hard drive using some jank-ass local network setup because young and dumb about tech still.

Six months go by, and my new laptop shit itself. Still no idea what happened, but it BSODd and a factory reset got it working again.

I still had my old laptop, so after about a week of searching on forums and reading everything I could find about how to build a pc, how laptop internals compare, data transfers, and literally anything I could so I could pull the old hard drive out without damaging anything and get at least some of my data without issue


I lost 6 months of new stuff on a much more capable laptop, but it’s better than losing EVERYTHING.

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This is something I should be doing.

I need quite a lot of space for backups and I don’t have enough space for them. I should at least start with partial backups with whatever I can fit in the storage I have.

My weak point right now is off-site, and homelab. My homelab isn’t backed up at all, and my personal data is only backed up on-site.

It’s better than nothing, but I should be doing better. I work in IT afterall. I think this is in the same vein as the mechanics car


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“Son, the time has finally come. Today I’m going to teach you TNO (Trust No One) security.”

my two-year-old stares blankly at me

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They’ll be ready to learn about Cryptography, Chains Of Trust and Two Channel Authentication by the age of 3!

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I allways say “an untested backup does not exist”

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A backup that is untested is a backup that does not exist?

A backup that is untested does not exist?

There exists no backup that is untested?

Any interpretation of your statement seems cautionary to me. :-)

E: typo

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I don’t understand what you are trying to say, my point is that until you have tested your backups you can’t rely on them, and thus should not bring them into consideration when planning disaster recovery procedures until you know they are good.

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I am not refuting or opposing your statement. I understood your point very well, but the brevity of your statement led to more than one interpretation.

I am merely pointing out whichever way one interprets your statement, it serves as a good warning about keeping one’s backups tested.

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But is #7 true if they don’t have a backup?

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But RAID is backup if it’s backup


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RAID in a secondary machine is a backup, but that’s because it’s a secondary machine, not because it’s RAID.

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Fair enough.

My parents didn’t tell me :'(

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Well, your internet IT moms and dads are here to fill that gap!

My dad spent too much time teaching “life lessons” like “brush your teeth” or “eat your vegetables” to get into even the fundamentals of filesystems. The nerve of some people.

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