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"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
Or: this is how newbies do it.
Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.
@_elena try restic. Borg is scary and complicated.
Also, backrest, a gui for restic makes it soo simple.
@tootbrute second recommendation of the day for Restic, I’m intrigued. Thank you! 🙏
@_elena I laugh at your ‘trigger warning for sysadmins’ but also sadly know why you have to. I do hope it triggers some in a way that helps developers empathize with ‘normal’ people more, and work on sanding off more rough edges.
Thanks again for your posts. I think they provide a nice window to see how software works for other groups of people :)
@kfdm thank you. I'm always afraid to offend actual sysadmins... but stuff like Borg is so complicated for a non-techie 😅
@_elena excellent, thank you very much. I think I will follow your advice.
@_elena Backing up, no matter how you do it, is important, what is even more important is that you test the restoration of your backups. There's a saying that says that an untested backup is no backup at all.
Also, I would recommend you look at restic over borg, as it's a more modern backup solution that has a very well audited encryption setup. Also, it's easy to setup with autorestic.
@_elena "Side note: I had to delete all my backups to simulate what the screen would look like for a new user and let me tell you... I was delighted to create a new backup right away (sigh of relief)."
...cue the suspense music from any decent horror movie. :)
