After a single APT command gone wrong made my Debian installation unusable, I decided to reinstall Linux. I tried to back up everything to my external hard drive, but it kept unmounting, so I elected to use Filen (a FOSS cloud storage provider) instead.

It was only after installing openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma that I realised I hadn’t actually synchronised the folder I had moved my backup to; meaning I have lost everything but a single Minecraft world (which I had backed up to a Compact Flash card in February).

Tl;dr: Double check your backups, and use physical storage whenever possible.

    • Hellfire103OP
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      2 years ago

      The trouble was that I could restore; except the only copy of the backup was on the disk itself, and hadn’t actually been uploaded to Filen.

      • flatbield@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        3 full backups minimum, one off site. Also handy to grab a disk image occasionally just in case.