When is the last time you ran backups?
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More importantly, when was the last time you tested your backups?
Backups are important. Testing your backups are even more important.
What is that?
I'm used to starting from scratch 😂.
I'm pretty sure the Universe crashes a lot, and God has to recover from backups. We don't notice because our state just picks up from where we left off. In fact I think he forgot to run backups not too long ago and we are now replaying a history we already played, except were are doing it all wrong this time around.
Constantly, actually 😬👍
Backups? What is that? Is it some sort of food?
Don't just do backups. Think through failure modes. Here are some examples to think through:
BAD: I accidentally deleted a directory and lost several months of work. RAID immediately mirrored the delete! Shit I thought RAID would protect me.
GOOD: use zfs or btrfs and take snapshots.
BAD: I've been backing up to a NAS but then I got cryptolockered, and they got into the NAS and cryptolockered that too!
GOOD: disconnect your backup system from the network when it is not running backups.
BAD: I've been making offline backups, but also defying the government. They came and raided the house and took my computers AND the backups.
GOOD: take backups offsite.
BAD: I took my backups offsite to a friends house, but we got into a fight. Now I have no backups.
GOOD: I treat my friends very well.
BAD: I took my backups offsite to a friends house, but it turned out he was an FBI agent.
GOOD: I shake down all my friends, and put them through torture sessions to extract all useful information before I trust them.
Now. TimeMachine is one of the most interesting and well integrated feature in macOS.
On local disks. Used with an endpoint on LAN is trash, a lot of corrupted backups.