Sort of like the difference between the cathedral and a bazaar?
Sort of like the difference between the cathedral and a bazaar?
I have a major problem!!! It is causing me pain and I cannot work because of this issue!!!
Sure let me fix it…
No!! Not now! Come back later!
So, it isn’t that big an issue?
No!!! It is so big I will talk to your boss about how you are not helping and why it is causing me issues!!!
——— yeah had this conversation more than once. Sigh
I feel you.
Western digital external. My book 20tb or whatever size works for you. I blew through a 12 and 16 filled with photos and videos…
USB 3 and portable; I use exfat as my friend keeps a copy at his house.
And I just rotate through 3. One at home one at work and one with my friend.
FreeFileSync to keep everything updated
No. Not really
For long term storage LTO is the answer.
If cost/ lifetime storage are the only factors
I prefer drives; it is a cost I’m willing to pay as speed is more important, at home —At work we have both because 3-2-1
However I have been looking at tape for home use for some long term storage
Oh dear god. He’s about to speak in a human voice and send me on a quest, isn’t he?
Us paraprau ite te reo Tahiti.
Checks DSM. Yep that about sums it up…
Case closed
Trois Colours ( Three Colors) Blue White Red
Great films. Wikipedia info
Yep. And even I did it in my post. Notice what is missing?
Test your backups!
Agreed… Yes, and… specific to backups all the encryption….
Your production stuff, yes should be as well
Would that be sufficient
No.
3-2-1
Three copies; your working copy, and a cloud copy, and (as an example) on and external HD that you keep at a friend’s house….
On two separate media… so yes cloud can cover that
One off site. So yeah cloud covers that.
Encryption on your off site copies. Yeah I don’t care if they are Linux ISOs or your grandmas recipes. ENCRYPTED
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Is there a thing that you do?
Are you looking to sysadmin or dev or something else?
Libreoffice. Librewolf but then I deal with students… ymmv
If your state allows it, set up a table and register people to vote
Volunteer to phone bank
This is amazingly true. That foreign metric system…
We do a quarterly test.
I have the DB guy make a change, I nuke it and ensure I can restore it.
For us. I don’t work for Veeam, while I don’t like their licensing. Veeam is pretty good
Hth
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah. It is kinda hard.
Backups. First and foremost.
Now once that is sorted, what if your DB gets corrupted. You test your backups
Learn how to verify and restore
It is a hassle. That’s why there is a constant back and forth between on prem and cloud in the enterprise
It the service is free, you are the product
We make it a drinking game…
Whenever a salespeople or a demo uses weasel language. DRINK!
Thank you. I’m totally going to steal “Tech debt reduction “. Ffs
Is there anything you’re interested in?
As above; intel will be SO much easier
Macs don’t have a bios. But they boot easily into Linux (again intel)
Enjoy