fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agobackups ran and tested!message-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1139file-text
arrow-up1139message-squarebackups ran and tested!fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square34linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarea14o@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agorm -rf / (don’t actually do this obv)
minus-squaresum_yung_gai@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 days agoHere, you dropped this. –no-preserve-root
minus-squareiamthetot@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoRestore a backup and make sure everything is where you left it.
minus-squarefleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoyep! restore a lxc on the backup machine and shut down the main one for a second
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThats good. So many places I see just accept that backup job completed without errors means backups are ok.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYou reapply/ reload database and do all the recovery procedure on a clean new installation for everything. Disaster recovery is much a thing together with backup. Depends on your infra how to proceed in concrete steps.
How do you check?
rm -rf /(don’t actually do this obv)
Here, you dropped this.
–no-preserve-root
Its OK, root was preserved
Restore a backup and make sure everything is where you left it.
yep! restore a lxc on the backup machine and shut down the main one for a second
Thats good. So many places I see just accept that backup job completed without errors means backups are ok.
You reapply/ reload database and do all the recovery procedure on a clean new installation for everything. Disaster recovery is much a thing together with backup. Depends on your infra how to proceed in concrete steps.