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RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005 (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently decided to replace the SD card in my Raspberry Pi and reinstall the system. Without any special backups in place, I turned to rsync to duplicate /var/lib/docker with all my containers, including Nextcloud.

Step #1: I mounted an external hard drive to /mnt/temp.

Step #2: I used rsync to copy the data to /mnt/tmp. See the difference?

Step #3: I reformatted the SD card.

Step #4: I realized my mistake.

Moral: no one is immune to their own stupidity 😂

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just impressed an SD card in a Pi lasted since 2017 without losing all your data on its own.

For the future the general guideline is 3 copies of your data at minimum, so definitely set up some backups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you actually do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Lots of backup software out there, I use a mix of Veeam Endpoint, Restic w/ Backblaze B2, and iDrive.