On Thu September 10 2020 15:49:21 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote: > Sage advice. Advice I follow with redundancy. > I back up important stuff to a "backups" directory, then /home to another > internal drive, which is raided with another. Then to 2 external drives. > > I also make DVD backups. > > I lost data once, about 22 years ago. I had to start from scratch. Never > again. I can't afford the time for DVD backups these days but a lot of our stuff is mirrored, plus sets of three rotating hard drive backups via rsync over ssh. Your top risk factor then is human error. An unfortunate young lady sysadmin in our group circa 1980 mistyped a tar-pipe-tar disk-to-disk backup command pipeline and with the pipe buffer then being a fixed 4KB managed to truncate every file on the server to 4KB. Took her several days to reinstall and reconfigure and recover from the weekly tape backup but she succeeded. I once accidentally deleted the wrong LVM volume group when reorganizing our backup system. After a screw-up like that it's important not to thrash around and possibly corrupt any deleted data. After much studying and heartburn vgcfgrestore fixed things perfectly in an instant. --Mike _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...