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You don't have any backups at all if you never tried restoring and testing them
by orbital-decay 5d ago
You don't have any backups at all if you never tried restoring and testing them
- monster_truck 5d agoThis is so critical. Not just verifying the hashes, not just restoring, but actually booting into it and opening the top 5-10 things you're going to care about. If it's your personal stuff, skip it at your own peril. If it's a paid responsibility, that's what hourly billing is for (this incentive was much stronger when I learned netadmin, back before nvmes)
- nvme0n1p1 5d agoI tested restoring my restic backups to the same PC and it worked. If I was forced to use a mac and Apple's password manager, I'd probably do the same test, conclude it worked, and then later lose all my data. If you care about keeping your data, there's no substitute for understand how things work.
- josephcsible 5d agoIt's unreasonable to ask everyone to own a second computer just to test restoring backups on, and it sounds like doing the test on the same computer wouldn't have caught this problem.
- lapcat 5d ago> doing the test on the same computer wouldn't have caught this problem. Doing it on a second computer wouldn't have caught this problem either with macOS 26.3 and earlier, because it was introduced in 26.4.