Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Mar 23

THIS IS A POST IN PRAISE OF SNAPSHOTS.

My PeerTube upgrade was a horror show: lost server connection during the upgrade and then PeerTube was automatically removed from my YunoHost server... the routine backup by YunoHost of PeerTube didn't restore... in short: bad, very bad outcome.

I hyperventilated for a few minutes and then... hit "Restore" on the VPS snapshot I had captured before the maintenance operation and... everything went back to normal.

Heart still beating a little fast but I am in AWE of the powers of SNAPSHOTS, ouf.

#sysadmin #MySoCalledSudoLife

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@elena snapshots are the asbestos underpants of the sysadmin community
Mar 23 at 1:55pmWeb
Show threadElena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Mar 23
@dch oh no! I wasn't aware of their bad reputation. they save the day for a newbie like me 😬​
Show threaddch  Mar 23

@elena not bad at all — asbestos underpants are great to have! You can survive any fire with them. But totally your last erm .. layer .. of defense.

I use these extensively with zfs - boot environments give coverage to the bootable OS, and datasets give me granularity for specific file systems.