Ancestors

Written by Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) on 2025-01-03 at 11:12

Just found an old file with #filk songs from a GeoCities site…

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Written by Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) on 2025-01-03 at 11:12

YESTERDAY

Yesterday,

All those backups seemed a waste of pay.

Now my database has gone away.

Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,

There's not half the files there used to be,

And there's a milestone

hanging over me

The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong

What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone

and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,

The need for back-ups seemed so far away.

I knew my data was all here to stay,

Now I believe in yesterday.

[#]filk #beatles

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Toot

Written by Seb on 2025-01-03 at 19:40

@fiee Spot on timing. Just discovered my cloud backup has been deleted because I missed the emails saying the payment had failed.

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Descendants

Written by Johan Wärlander 🦀 on 2025-01-03 at 23:28

@seb321 @fiee There are so, so many ways for backups to fail.. 😬

The best cases are backups that fail to run, and let you know via an error message.

Sometimes backups run, but fail to write to the target location (or get deleted, which is effectively the same outcome).

Backups may also run, and write to the target properly, but were sadly configured to include the wrong data.

Sometimes the output is simply corrupt, and can't be restored.

You'll never know unless you test the backup.. 😅

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Written by Seb on 2025-01-04 at 15:11

@fiee @jwarlander What would your recommendation be for storing mainly digitised photos to be as future proof as possible on a reasonable budget?

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Written by Johan Wärlander 🦀 on 2025-01-04 at 15:38

@seb321 @fiee Beyond cloud storage, which can be fine of course:

Rotating a few USB drives would probably be a reasonable approach up to a certain scale. Just sync the files over.

If you've got multiple computers, SyncThing etc can be another low-effort approach (but only replicates, no protect against deletion etc).

Best, and most expensive - use backup software with separate NAS storage (HDDs are cheap). Keep old backups for at least a few weeks to have some protection from mistakes.

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