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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

🤔

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[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I prefer reflinks.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

Was it me? I was also doing that until very recently.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the reminder, I've subscribed to their cloud service since day 1. Time to actually use that backup feature.

[–] noodle@aus.social 3 points 5 months ago

@root @homeassistant It me. I don't see the issue.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I back mine up to my own local disk, but about once every three months or so, I pull a copy from the disk onto my phone. That way I have another copy of it that's not on the local disk.

My setup doesn't change that much in that amount of time, so I'm not particularly worried about losing a bunch of data.

[–] root@mastodon.raviteja.computer [S] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

@shortwavesurfer This is a good strategy until I remember to do it diligently 😅.

The first step I did with my new install is to ensure that the cloud backup works(self hosted coming soon)

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago

The reason I do it that way is because I have my password manager in KeePass and do the database backups in the same way. So when I'm doing one of them, I do the other at the same time, just for consistency's sake.

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

This reminds me, I use the internal ha backup (to a network drive). But I'm using Linux kvm, so I could be doing snapshots instead, which in theory are easier to restore.

[–] root@mastodon.raviteja.computer [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

@limelight79 I would still advise doing an alternate method(along with snapshot) of copy i.e tarred config directory as done by HA. I am not sure what happened(error message indicated disk corruption)but I couldn’t recover from the vm snapshots I had.

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Do both, you're saying? Maybe keep the daily backup and then do a weekly snapshot, something like that.

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[–] root@mastodon.raviteja.computer [S] 1 point 5 months ago

@limelight79 I am saying two different methods of backup i.e one at file system level.. which the home assistant provides (to a cloud or local object storage) and one at block level (which I think where the snapshots you were referring to come into play)

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I’m not even backing up.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 10 points 5 months ago

Zero chance of backups failing if you don’t have any.

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2 points 5 months ago

Happened to me as well! Backed up to some local folder in /mnt because the NAS share wasn't mounted properly. Fortunately noticed before anything bad happened.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 point 5 months ago

I like to dump the whole VM every so often.
Overkill? Maybe. But I like knowing that no matter how hard I cock it up, I can spin an old version up.