Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)Just found an old file with #filk songs from a GeoCities site…
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YESTERDAY
Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone
hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.
Seb@fiee Spot on timing. Just discovered my cloud backup has been deleted because I missed the emails saying the payment had failed.
Johan Wärlander 🦀@seb321 @fiee There are so, so many ways for backups to fail.. 😬
The best cases are backups that fail to run, and let you know via an error message.
Sometimes backups run, but fail to write to the target location (or get deleted, which is effectively the same outcome).
Backups may also run, and write to the target properly, but were sadly configured to include the wrong data.
Sometimes the output is simply corrupt, and can't be restored.
You'll never know unless you test the backup.. 😅
@fiee @jwarlander What would your recommendation be for storing mainly digitised photos to be as future proof as possible on a reasonable budget?
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