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My backup strategy is restic to rsync.net hourly/daily/weekly depending on the system, retaining a bunch of snapshots Once a month, I manually run a script that fetches the latest backups from rsync.net to a portable disk, imports database dumps to a fresh mariadbd and runs some stored queries

Sean Eric Fagan@kithrup.bsky.social

Have at least THREE copies of your data: the live one on your computer, and at least two backups. Use at least TWO different storage media, eg, your computer's drive and another drive. Ideally you'd use different *types* -- hard drive, network storage drive, tape/optical.

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joshua stein

@jcs.org

17 May

This does a few things: - ensures restoring from restic/rsync.net works - ensures plaintext database dumps are usable if I need to re-import everything rather than restoring the raw binary SQL files - creates the third copy of my data on that portable disk that I store in a safe place

joshua stein

@jcs.org

17 May

If you need a convenient place to store your offline encrypted backups, a 1TB microSD card can be hidden anywhere