As hopefully everyone, I have backups of all my data. After initial setup, I usually forget about it until something breaks, and I need to restore my data. This post is just a reminder: please check if you can restore your data.
But if you want to know my setup
I settled with kopia.io. It has a nice graphical (and terminal) interface, support for cloud and local storage, encryption, compression and as for now: it just works.
Before that, I used:
- Duplicati: buggy, my backups broke after few months (problem with cloud connection)
- Restic: no compression is a dealbreaker for me, as this increases storage costs in a cloud like Backblaze B2
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Boss: Have you tested our disaster recovery procedure?
Me: Absolutely!
... 2 days later:
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Thank you for the reminder 😄!
Is it time we changed the common language from 'backup' to 'recovery' eg: a Data Recovery Strategy or saying "Have you tested your data recovery recently"?