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reminder to (test your) backup (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by illusionist@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Somehow I had a database corruption and I did not know how to restore from backup. It was a bad experience until I saw that it worked. Make regular and check your backups.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

How do you guys test your backups?

The image backups I do of my server are tested in a VM

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