Nothing to report.

    • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Good news, you can use someone else’s. Backblaze is pretty cheap. It adds up to about $5USD per Terrabyte, and it’s pro-rated. So 500GB is $2.50,etc.

      Hetzner recently introduced some S3 compatible object storage, too.

      Object Storage and “S3” are just ways to refer to a certain type of system. To interact with it, you just need tools that have S3 support built in.

      Restic is fantastic. If you’d like some help coming up with the command to use, let me know.

      Pretty much every popular backup solution supports S3 type storage.

      Anyway, backups are good.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 day ago

    I finally switched to a brtfs filesystem and set up regular snapshots. I’m far more pleased about it than I have any right to be.

    • Hupf@feddit.org
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Beware of bit rot though. Snapshots help with user error, not with cosmic rays or worse.

      A separate full backup is still required as well.

      • FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip
        1·
        13 hours ago

        BTRFS has native checksumming, so it will detect any bitrot that occurs. Additionally it supports various RAID levels. So if you have some level of replication or parity, then combined with the checksums, it will automatically correct bitrot as well.

        A proper backup strategy is of course still necessary.

        • Hupf@feddit.org
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I’m running a 60TB btrfs RAID with all the bells and whistles myself and just recently had an instance of some file being fucked up (probably just the wrong metadata bit being affected or something), which I noticed because btrfs send would repeatedly crash at that inum. All the redundancy may be there, but sometimes it’s not able to recover automagically.

          Not hating on btrfs at all - it helped me recover from a few fubar situations that could easily have been total data loss - but magical thinking (about all the fancy features) is dangerous.

      • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
        3·
        17 hours ago

        Thanks! Yeah, I have a separate SBC connected to a spinny HDD for backups of user data, plus I mirror it in the cloud. The snapshots are for when I mess up something on my system.