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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

rule of thumb. any backup you don't regularly test isn't a backup.

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