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If it’s important enough to pay a monthly fee for archival cloud hosting, it’s important enough to maintain a local copy backup.
If it’s archival it doesn’t even cost electricity, you only need the machine on when adding to the archive. Then just shit it back down and leave it alone.
important enough to maintain a local copy backup. tis why I tagged
#3-2-1%20ignoreyou only need the machine on when adding to the archive. Then just shit it back down and leave it alone. Nope.
Regular backup tests is part of backup hygiene.
Otherwise you have duds you need to replace.To make your comment more readable, you need to edit your comment to add another line break between what you quoted and your response to it (i.e. a blank line before “Nope.”).
Lol, that’s an issue with lemmy‘s markdown interpreter.
It looks perfect on pylova. Come see.@givesomefucks@lemmy.world seems this is what you actually meant?
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, and I feel like that’s because you don’t know how comments work…
They screwed up the formatting, but it’s clear what they’re saying. They quoted you saying you don’t even need electricity for archives, and they’re telling you that if you don’t test your backups, you don’t have backups.
Do you comprehend actual backup/cyber hygiene?
You can say it to the C-Suite all you’d like, but Goodluck getting them to budget for anything sometimes. Spinning rust, lto tapes, etc and the software to handle them is generally considered out of budget, at least at most orgs I’ve worked with (despite the recommendation to practice 3-2-1). Also, you may want to further detail your advice, most storage mediums (save lto tapes) require ongoing power to prevent things like bitrot. It’s quite common for hard drives for example to develop bad sectors over time, but algos running on the drives embedded firmware clean this up by repositioning bad sectors to a reserve space. Nvme/flash is even more vulnerable to this and behaves similarly.
“3-2-1” is important when considering your backups. AT LEAST.
3 copies of your data.
2 separate locations.
1 (or more) off-site.
If you want to go a step further(a good idea), add in one more that’s immutable(to prevent access to malware).
Getting hard to find WORM drives & media at an affordable price nowadays. For larger orgs like PBS maybe it isn’t such a problem, but for us everyday schmoes…
