Thank you @stefano for sharing! I'm looking forward to this series; backups are far too often overlooked, and then people have to try to recover bits and pieces from the remnants.

For me, the place where I generally start is RESTORATION: what do I want a restore (full or partial) to look like? Then, storage media (local external HDD, USB flash drive, tape, cloud, …; RTO may drive this), taking into account integrity. A lot of choices are then driven or dictated by those.

#backup#DataRecovery

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/

#Backup#OwnYourData#SysAdmin#IT#DataRecovery#ITNotes

The new #Signal #backup system fulfills so many of the things people have wanted for so long:
Hosted by Signal, so your #data is safe even if you made a local backup but dropped your #phone in a lake.
The ability to dynamically offload media so that Signal takes up less space on your phone, while still letting you download that media on the fly if you scroll back.
An independent backup format that is readable by all clients, so that you can do things like backup on #Android and restore on #iOS.
A generous optional free tier that will ensure that all of the text content of your messages is backed up, as well as the most recent 45 days of media.
A fairly-priced paid tier that allows us to offer 100GB of media storage in a way that is sustainable for us as an organization.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-signal-backups-testing/69984

borgmatic 2.0.7 has been released with Btrfs improvements, Borg 2 features, and security fixes.

#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup

Release notes: https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/2.0.7