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How long do you keep your backups? (lemmy.zip)
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Right now I'm creating a nightly restic snapshot of my server on borgbase and on some spare drives, and keeping the snapshots forever. There's a ton of daily churn in my data though, between databases and logs and other files that don't constitute 'real data' but might be needed to restore the app.

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[–] 2 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

I backup once a week. I have 3 backups (in 2 locations). Everytime a new one is created, the oldest is deleted. I figured if I need to roll back something, 3 weeks is more than enough to notice.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    Back when I used OneDrive, it deleted an important but seldom used folder. It just wasn't there anymore. No one noticed for 6 months, but luckily I had kept a backup each month so could restore it easily.

    3 weeks is definitely not long enough for me to notice something missing, if it's just a random chunk of my 700GB of important stuff. E.g. if a folder of my kids photos from 5 years ago suddenly disappeared, I probably wouldn't notice it for months but would be devistated to find it missing when I eventually went looking for it.

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