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In the immortal words of Daniel Rutter (again): If nothing else, backups are necessary because at some point in your life you will confidently instruct your computer to destroy your data.
i just deleted a month of notes by doing:
find $(pwd) "*.tmp" -delete
instead of:
find $(pwd) -iname "*.tmp" -delete
turns out the former throws an error on "*.tmp" but still deletes everything lol... PSA for everyone
Damn! That's a brutal one. Someone should maybe change that behavior.
why $(pwd) instead of just
.?i changed it so that ppl on lemmy who may not be familiar with the syntax of find could read it easier? maybe it made it more confusing
A few years ago I deleted my whole home folder by bind-mounting it inside a chroot. When I was done with the chroot, I
rm -rf-ed it without unmounting my home first.This happened to me, just a few weeks ago. I am glad I had btrfs snapshots...
Been there, done that.
I was lucky last time, was able to reconstruct almost all of it (99.7%) in 3 weeks of after-work messing around. The 0.3% is non-critical.
Now I do something I wrote myself with cron, rsync, hardlinks and gpg. It's simple, easy to test and fairly bulletproof. Protip: keep many backups of your keys or you'll wish you had.
Yeah, I was hesitant to encrypt backups for a long time, and now I have the problem that you can't store backups of encryption headers on the encrypted device(s)
Syncthing (distributed folder sharing including “keep x copies of each file”) and duplicity (gpg-encrypted, incremental backup anywhere) are your friends.
Been using them for a very, very long time. A++ open source, cross-platform solutions.