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How do you manage your home server configuration?
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I use snapshots, once a month an image is made of the entire drive, and I have Duplicati that backs up to cloud. Whatever choice you make tho, remember 3,2,1, and backups are useless unless tested on a regular basis. The test portion always gives me anxiety.
I'd really like to know if there's any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.
Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it's done. Especially on humble "I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure" setups.