The lesson of backing up has been learned :(
too long the hit took me a while to recover from

looking forward to be up and running again (with backups this time)

cheers all!

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Hello David!

On 20 Jan 2022, David said the following...

too long the hit took me a while to recover from
looking forward to be up and running again (with backups this time)

Glad to hear you're up and running again!

I almost lost all (20+ years worth of) files a couple of years back... But an external hard drive miraculously survived (it was connected to the failing equipment which burned all its internal hard drives!) and reduced the loss to one month of changes, and in the middle of summer those weren't very many in practice. Phew!

Added a cloud backup to the mix after that... :-O

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Re: Testing nephilim
By: Zip to David on Sat Jan 22 2022 09:49 am

Glad to hear you're up and running again!

Thank you, was relieved as your message was the first reply i got on this board as well!

failing equipment which burned all its internal hard drives!) and reduced

this is so sad, I am happy you were able to salvage the ext h.d. afterall

Added a cloud backup to the mix after that... :-O

this is something i will be setting up shortly.

again thank you
and see you around!

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Re: Re: Testing nephilim
By: David to Zip on Sat Jan 22 2022 01:39 pm

Re: Re: Testing nephilim
By: Zip to David on Sat Jan 22 2022 09:49 am

Glad to hear you're up and running again!

Thank you, was relieved as your message was the first reply i got on this bo

failing equipment which burned all its internal hard drives!) and reduced

this is so sad, I am happy you were able to salvage the ext h.d. afterall

Added a cloud backup to the mix after that... :-O

this is something i will be setting up shortly.

again thank you
and see you around!

As I set up a secondary system (just for mail server), I added a 1TB external USB drive. Easy and fast to do. Took a bit to format the drive but once done, all is well. I just backed up 3GB in 2.5 minutes. Works for me as a backup.

xxcarol

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Re: Re: Testing nephilim
By: Carol Shenkenberger to David on Sat Jan 22 2022 09:47 pm

As I set up a secondary system (just for mail server), I added a 1TB external USB drive. Easy and fast to do. Took a bit to format the drive

I will definitely not trust a single hdd for backup, at least for the config areas I would possibly supllemant with an email with gzip to my personal gmail inbox once a day/week/month.

as for file areas - I lost some very oldschool israeli BBS scene files and i am devistated about it. can only hope for the best in the future. and backup in more locations. considering even archive.org or ipfs.

David

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Hello David!

On 22 Jan 2022, David said the following...

Thank you, was relieved as your message was the first reply i got on this as well!

I'm quick, some times. =)

again thank you
and see you around!

You're very welcome! See you around!

Best regards
Zip

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On 1/23/22 01:08, David wrote:

I will definitely not trust a single hdd for backup, at least for the
config areas I would possibly supllemant with an email with gzip to my personal gmail inbox once a day/week/month.

I've got a Synology NAS at home that I have a script that backs up from
my remote servers (rsync) to local directories on my desktop, then over
to the NAS.

Almost all my projects are on gitlab, github and/or dropbox.

as for file areas - I lost some very oldschool israeli BBS scene files
and i am devistated about it. can only hope for the best in the
future. and backup in more locations. considering even archive.org or
ipfs.

Depending on your connectivity, might be worth cloning your filebases to Amazon AWS S3, Digital Ocean storage or Azure Blob Storage... There are
FUSE links that can cache local to the remote storage. Depending on
your config, wouldn't be too hard to have web links directed at the
storage directly.

One thing I slightly regret is not actively archiving more file areas,
in fact, in the 20+ years of roughneck bbs, in various states, I don't
think I've really configured any file areas for common access. Now it's become nearly impossible to find some of the legacy archive files, in particular DOS utilities and related are much harder to come by.
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