The Tao of Backup: A Classic Guide to Data Protection
The Tao of Backup is a classic web resource that uses philosophical humor to teach backup best practices. It covers the seven key rules: understanding what you're backing up, making copies, storing them offsite, testing restores, and more. The Hacker News discussion includes a link to a comprehensive backup and security plan for individuals, and nostalgic comments about the early web.
I miss the World Wide Web, man...
- dbdr
The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
The master made no reply.
The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.
If that's your situation, it might be worth backing up applications. However, there are better solutions that make this irrelevant. For instance, using NixOS, you can literally back up a single text file describing your system setup, and you can recreate the system from it automatically in minutes, guaranteed to be bit for bit identical.
- ibotty
> The novice became suspicious and said: "Master, is all this 'Tao of Backup' stuff just so you can sell more copies of Veracity?"
> The master said: "Now you are truly enlightened."
- ahazred8ta
For reference: a comprehensive backup + security plan for individuals https://nau.github.io/triplesec/
- happyrock
I miss the World Wide Web, man...
- throwaway81523
Haven't seen that in ages and thought it had moved. 20GB tape containing all the corporate goodies. That makes me smile.