Sounds like it’s time to buy a good 6tb hdd for backups. Don’t be like me and put it off for years and suffer multiple drive failures and lose over a decade of hoarded data!
Because backing stuff up is a pain, especially if you want to back up your entire operating system and not just your home folder. It’s taken me a fair bit of work and a lot of know-how to set up Borg Backup to do that, including writing a custom script to safely fsck, mount, and unmount the backup drive.
True. I am working on some scripts so I can simply do a fresh install and then it’s all setup the way I like it. Some parts are easy but others a bit more complex.
But then I still need to make backups of the important stuff. I kinda use Google Drive for that though it’s not really a backup because all local changes are streamed to it. That will suck in the event of a ransomware attack.
Meanwhile, I’ve been backing stuff up like it’s my religion, and never had a drive failure to recover from.
The closest I’ve come is when I, earlier this year, trashed the file system on one of my machines. I restored the backup onto one of the two drives in the machine (they’re in a RAID1 configuration), but then I found a way to mount the old file system, so I still would have been able to recover without the backup.
The depths of my jealousy, knows no bounds. On 3 separate occasions in the last 8 years I’ve lost decades of data. I was able to recover most of the data at every failure, but cumulatively…almost enough to make me cry…
Thanks, that’s exactly it!
But I have a huge amount of data on the drive(1tb) and no second drive to use for backup
Sounds like it’s time to buy a good 6tb hdd for backups. Don’t be like me and put it off for years and suffer multiple drive failures and lose over a decade of hoarded data!
I am running out of what little cash I had
Yeah, me too buddy…me too…
Why are we like this? I too have a habit of losing hoarded data.
Because backing stuff up is a pain, especially if you want to back up your entire operating system and not just your home folder. It’s taken me a fair bit of work and a lot of know-how to set up Borg Backup to do that, including writing a custom script to safely fsck, mount, and unmount the backup drive.
True. I am working on some scripts so I can simply do a fresh install and then it’s all setup the way I like it. Some parts are easy but others a bit more complex. But then I still need to make backups of the important stuff. I kinda use Google Drive for that though it’s not really a backup because all local changes are streamed to it. That will suck in the event of a ransomware attack.
Idfk, but it’s an issue…
Meanwhile, I’ve been backing stuff up like it’s my religion, and never had a drive failure to recover from.
The closest I’ve come is when I, earlier this year, trashed the file system on one of my machines. I restored the backup onto one of the two drives in the machine (they’re in a RAID1 configuration), but then I found a way to mount the old file system, so I still would have been able to recover without the backup.
The depths of my jealousy, knows no bounds. On 3 separate occasions in the last 8 years I’ve lost decades of data. I was able to recover most of the data at every failure, but cumulatively…almost enough to make me cry…