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How having an online backup saved my home server today

I have a physical server running at home that has a few services running on it, including Nginx Proxy Manager to route external network traffic to an OpenWebRx SDR that I host at home. The server boots off its own NVMe internal drive, but has two 4 ...continues

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GadgeteerZA · How having an online backup saved my home server todayI have a physical server running at home that has a few services running on it, including Nginx Proxy Manager to route external network traffic to an

Today I'm researching better workflows to backup databases, and create sanitised copies for local development.

I'm not able to find a great deal of informative discussion around best practice.

Is this stuff more obvious than I think - or is it so under-the-radar-unsexy that industry practice is just not very good?

Happy World Backup Day!

As they say on Qo'noS: Today is good day to not lose your data!

Don't forget to verify your backups from time to time. A backup you haven't checked that you can successfully restore from is worse than useless: it gives you a false sense of security.