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Should I spend the weekend verifying my backups or finding a place with low light pollution for some aurora viewing?

• hagbard_c 2y ago
  How bout both? Verify those backups in case you need to - make sure you can actually recover them as well, this is not the same as running a verify job - and go out while the thing is doing its job. I went out last night and got some spectacular photos here in Sweden, they would fit in some SF flick about a portal opening up in space. There was a clear impact centre for the charged particles somewhat south of the zenith from where large columns of light emanated to cover the entire southern hemisphere. Yes, southern, the aurora band was pushed down so far that I had to look south. Only later in the night - when the activity abated - did some of those columns appear more northerly. I did not have to test my backups because I do so regularly and know I can recover from disaster.