After a lot of elbow grease the deep dish pizza pan is clean and rust free. It was absolutely filthy but for $2.50 and the sake of saving something from a landfill, I don't mind putting in the work. I will probably have to season it but since I don't know where it's been, I would rather start from scratch. #reuse #restore #recycle #thrift
"Untested backups are just expensive hopes and dreams."
Did some proper restore-tests of my offsite backups and restored them one after another into a local virtual machine (KVM) and verified that they decrypt, restore and boot correctly 🙂 (including our Mastodon instance burningboard.net)
It's good to have backups, but it's an even better feeling when you know, they work, restore correctly and the procedure has been tested.
All check marks green, next test in January 2026 🙂
#linux #freebsd #backup #restore #devops #it #mastoadmin @tux
Do you make backups? Do you run ZFS? Do you use Bacula? Do you use dd?
Your method is important for you. What's also important is testing how a restore works.
I lost a partition less than 30 minutes ago. I have a simple tgz backup of the important data on another drive, not an SSD, no a HDD.
I lost zero bytes of data.
Please make sure your backup and restore systems work.
When your recovery tool says the partition is lost, only your backup will save you.
Mine did