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That's why you need redundancy.
by ska 3y ago
That's why you need redundancy.
- aidenn0 3y agoIt's also why you need redundancy.
- bcrosby95 3y agoI prefer even more redundancy. In general, I have 4 copies of any piece of data I care about: the machine, dropbox, backblaze, and a local external hard drive.
- dylan604 3y agoIf you have multiple backups all on the same format, you only have one backup according to THE rules
- 1letterunixname 3y agoI take it you've never written DR bare metal recovery procedures or been in involved in detailed, living business continuity planning. You have zero backups if they're untested. If they're tested and separate by vendor and/or distance, if they're in an accessible medium or format, then they are different.
- dylan604 3y agoI take it you like to read into people's comments things that aren't there.
- kjrose 3y agoYes redundancy is very important. I lost a decade of my life data when a main hd failed, and a tb backup drive failed at the same time.
- ratsmack 3y agoRedundancy can fail.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoYours is the absolutely dumbest comment I've read all year.
- lakpan 3y agoOn the other hand, if you you forget the password to all 4 copies, redundancy will fail. Life is lossy
- jacquesm 3y agoIt's really just entropy that you're fighting here.
- aidenn0 3y agoIf a copy is physically protected (probably good to have one that is) then it could potentially be unencrypted. Restic won't let you have unencrypted backups (a reasonable design decision to prevent accidentally unencrypted backups), but Borg will. I also keep my important passwords written down on a piece of paper in a fire safe. This includes my borg and tarsnap keys.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoEncryption is an layer to prevent disclosure in cases where offsite vaulting fails to keep data confidential. Backup passwords can be split amongst trusted individuals (N-person keying) so that no one person can access contents themselves, but there is no point of failure when multiple people with the same part of the password.
- tremon 3y agoNo, you haven't demonstrated that redundancy will fail. If all 4 copies had the same password, the password was not redundant, and it is the non-redundant component that failed.