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10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.
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[–] chellomere 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Backing up to a different partition on the same RAID array sounds like a good way to lose all your data.

The backup should be physically separate from the original.

[–] qaz 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, and it should use another type of media, like tape, glass, stone tablets or optical media

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

We have a bard travel accross the lands and carry out our data by singing epics about it.

That's a valid backup because it's a different media, correct?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It shall live on through the generations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

oral traditions have survived an astoundingly long time, albeit with some bitrot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

As long as you are fine with corruption.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

NEVER test your backups. It wears out the tapes faster.