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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • just don’t fall into the typical trap:

    1. I am brave, backup is for losers
    2. I lost everything, I must do the perfect backup setup in the world
    3. I still on a way to design my ultimate backup solution
    4. I lost everything again because my amazing multilevel backup setup missed one link and it did nothing for months without realizing that

    Just get a simple external drive and use one software that you know well. It means that you previously tested, and you are familiar with its working and recovery methods. Add some monitoring, best if the backup software can send emails.

    When you have this base layer, then you can think about extending it to cloud, multiple locations, etc. First just do an easy simple stable reliable solution.

    Multiple levels of encryption is useless, it just makes the system more complicated and error-prone. Either trust in the encryption built-in to the backup software, or do not use any application level encryption and use disk-level method.



  • I use endless incremental method with 60 days history. So I always have 60 days to go back with having only one full backup that gets the expired incrementals merged automatically. This way the daily backup only takes a few minutes and it doesn’t need too much overhead space to store multiple full images as with other methods. It is also encrypted and uses VSS so it can backup everything on a live system. Sends email if there was a problem, supports pre an posts scrips to mount my backup drive, etc.

    I also do independent full backups occasionally of course, but the previous one is the main reason for Macrium. Sometimes I just use it to dump other disks or old SDcards to a compressed image file that I can mount and use easily if needed.