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Friendly reminder (feddit.nl)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system.

I was supposed to be in bed now, but instead I am stuck troubleshooting xorg refusing to start after an apt-get dist-upgrade.

And as far as friendly reminders go, I should've given myself an unfriendly reminder beforehand, as it's not the first time....

UPDATE: Fuck nvidia 545. All my homies hate nvidia 545. 535 4 lyf!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Timeshift with BTRFS kicks ass. I have mine set for daily snapshots, retained for a week. Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal, and easily justified by the peace of mind in case of fuck-ups or broken updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just make sure you back up your stuff to a second disk❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal

If you want to use a similar approach for backups, Borgbackup is a pretty nice piece of software. I have two backups of my most important files: One on my NAS at home, and one "in the cloud" on a storage VPS (ends up way cheaper than using S3, B2 or anything like that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which storage VPS have you selected? I'm looking at Hetzner atm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've got one with HostHatch that's 10TB of space for $10/month. It was an offer they had during Black Friday 2020. They had a similar offer during Black Friday 2023 but I think it was around $20/month, paid yearly.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and my storage server is in Los Angeles, which is around 10ms round-trip ping time from my home internet connection.

Hetzner is good too. They have relatively cheap "storage boxes" that are a shared environment rather than a VPS. You don't get proper SSH access, but they do support FTPS, SFTP, Samba, Borgbackup, Restic, rclone, rsync and WebDAV. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

Borgbackup encrypts the backups, so the host won't be able to actually view your backups.