submitted 1 year ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@sopuli.xyz

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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.

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[-] mrclark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Always always always have 3 places where you store your data. Your main data store. Another storage location and then one offsite. And like others have said...check your backups occasionally to make sure you can successfully restore from them.

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