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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I do restore my VMs to deplicate VMs to test from time to time (it’s pretty easy with Proxmox) but I use Restic for data backups which encrypts the data before uploading it, so one should restore a backup to a different folder to ensure the data integrity and that you didn’t forget your keys ahah

    You don’t have to do it every week or month, but it’s worth doing it a few times a year or when you change something!



  • Personally I do:

    • Daily snapshots of my data + Daily restic backup on-site on a different machine
    • Daily VM/containers snapshot locally and on a different machine, keeping at least 2 monthly, 2 weekly and 2 daily backups
    • Weekly incremental data backup in an immutable B2 bucket, with a new bucket every month and a 6 month immutability (so data can’t be changed/erased for 6 month)
    • Weekly incremental data backup on an other off-site machine
    • Monthly (but I should start doing it weekly) backup of important data (mainly documents and photos) on removable medias that I keep offline in a fire-proof safe

    Maybe it’s overkill, maybe it’s not enough, I’ll know when something fail and I am screwed, ahah

    As a note, everybody should test/check their backup frequently. I once had an issue after changing an IP address and figured out half my backups where not working 6 month later…