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"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena Backing up, no matter how you do it, is important, what is even more important is that you test the restoration of your backups. There's a saying that says that an untested backup is no backup at all.
Also, I would recommend you look at restic over borg, as it's a more modern backup solution that has a very well audited encryption setup. Also, it's easy to setup with autorestic.
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena "Side note: I had to delete all my backups to simulate what the screen would look like for a new user and let me tell you... I was delighted to create a new backup right away (sigh of relief)."
...cue the suspense music from any decent horror movie. :)
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@_elena Backing up, no matter how you do it, is important, what is even more important is that you test the restoration of your backups. There's a saying that says that an untested backup is no backup at all.
Also, I would recommend you look at restic over borg, as it's a more modern backup solution that has a very well audited encryption setup. Also, it's easy to setup with autorestic.
@ainmosni thank you for the feedback Daniël. May I add your advice to my blog post?
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
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@ainmosni thank you for the feedback Daniël. May I add your advice to my blog post?
@_elena Of course!
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@mensrea OMG 😂😂😂
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@_elena Of course!
@ainmosni I'm looking after my little one who's home from school with a fever... will try to get to it ASAP.
Thanks again for the brilliant feedback
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@ainmosni I'm looking after my little one who's home from school with a fever... will try to get to it ASAP.
Thanks again for the brilliant feedback
@_elena No rush, if I my executive dysfunction would ever let me, I might sometime write a blog post about my own self hosted setup.
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@_elena No rush, if I my executive dysfunction would ever let me, I might sometime write a blog post about my own self hosted setup.
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena excellent, thank you very much. I think I will follow your advice.
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena
Hi Elena,Just my 2 cents. I run Yuno for a lot off services. One is next cloud, which contains a lot of data (over 1 terabyte) If I use the yuno backup option I need a huge drive just to do the backup. So now I just shutdown the server, take out the physical nvme drive and connect it to my laptop. Then I use dd to make an exact 1:1 copy of the entire disk. This image is synced to different locations. Maybe this is useful to some folx. Thank you for your continued sharing. 👍👍
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@_elena Backing up, no matter how you do it, is important, what is even more important is that you test the restoration of your backups. There's a saying that says that an untested backup is no backup at all.
Also, I would recommend you look at restic over borg, as it's a more modern backup solution that has a very well audited encryption setup. Also, it's easy to setup with autorestic.
That was my first comment too: you’ll have to test your backups otherwise you don’t know if you have backups :)
It’s a Schrödinger’s cat type of problem −> you have to open the box.And it leads me to a second aspect: automation. good backup processes (the one that brings piece of mind) are automated. And of course the backup check can be automated too.
It’s piece of cake for a backup solution that you can script (borg, restic, kopia, rsync, etc.) but frankly I don’t know about Yunohost, may be you can’t do better.On the side, I’ll share one of my sysadmin fails: I had a finely tuned backup process with scripts/config/etc. that was running daily for years flawlessly. Someday I leveraged that backup as a source of data to do a server migration (shutdown old system, start new one, restore data from backup). That worked great. Then I tested some web apps: epic failure (missing MySQL tables). What could have gone wrong?
Answer: I had setup my backup script to ignore files named*/mysql/*log*because I don’t want to backup MySQL log files. Not so much of a surprise: this element of config instructed my backup process to exclude database files named like dc_log.MYD or oc_login_address.ibd (and many others).
Of course I had another way to retrieve the missing data. But, hell, I was not comfortable. -
@_elena "Side note: I had to delete all my backups to simulate what the screen would look like for a new user and let me tell you... I was delighted to create a new backup right away (sigh of relief)."
...cue the suspense music from any decent horror movie. :)
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena
> Fun fact - and sorry I'm addressing this point only now but the right way to pronounce "YunoHost" is Why-You-No-Host (Y-U-NO-Host). In the first couple of months of using the service I routinely mispronounced it YoU-No-Host.I have already learned something today and it’s not even 7a! 😆
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena I laugh at your ‘trigger warning for sysadmins’ but also sadly know why you have to. I do hope it triggers some in a way that helps developers empathize with ‘normal’ people more, and work on sanding off more rough edges.
Thanks again for your posts. I think they provide a nice window to see how software works for other groups of people :) -
@tootbrute second recommendation of the day for Restic, I’m intrigued. Thank you! 🙏
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