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[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 year ago

Backups people backups. You don't realize how much you want them until it's too late to make them.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

don't worry I have raid, that's a backup right?

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Raid 0 right? I heard the number stands for how much risk there is of losing data.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago

Add more disks for more reliability

[-] spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.no 4 points 1 year ago

Due to the green economy I only buy second or third hand disks for my RAID0 setup

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No, the backup goes after the raid when something goes wrong.

Wait, I thought you're talking about that SWAT team outside your house.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

If 3-2-1 is a good backup strategy, RAID (non-zero) is like 0.5 at best. Maybe 0.6 if your config can handle 2 simultaneous drive failures

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How do I make a backup of my pi and all its settings? I set everything up following guides and am not great with Linux. Is there a way to make like a full clone, so I can just copy paste into a new pi in case?

[-] Ack@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think the same software you used to image your SD card can be used to make an image from your SD card.

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Copy the entire SD card (both partitions) with a tool like dd to a file.

[-] purplemonkeymad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also remember to backup before things break. I once diligently backed up a system image before an upgrade. But I backed up a already failed SD card.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Also remember to test your backup system.

Setting up an intricate backup process is great, until an actual emergency happens and it turns out you can't put Humpty-Dumpty back together

[-] Zaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

and if possible, keep some backups in a separate physical location. House fires or break-ins aren't all that uncommon.

[-] spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.no 2 points 1 year ago

A good advice, but most regular people don't seem to bother with rotating physical off-site storage mediums so I advocate automated (and encrypted) backups to a cloud or something as well.

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