Recently read a comment here: “Think you have a backup? Delete your drives now. If you’re hesitant, you don’t really have a backup.”
As true as that is: I’d be in the “hesitant” category because I only back up my data / containers, not my bare metal system and its config. Do you guys? (Proxmox users will probably do, but what about the rest?)
I backup “everything” from my raspberries, and just \home for laptops but for an actual disaster recovery I’d just do a clean install, get an IP address and then reinstall everything via Ansible, then drag my home data back off the NAS
But… I like that statement. I’ll use that at work.
I actually did that. Or well, I was planning to upgrade the Debian version and instead of doing it in place I replaced the drive (kept the old around for a while just in case) and did a clean install. I didn’t make any new backups or moved configs or anything outside what I already had, the system was back to operations faily quickly. The main reason, I have a markdown file describing every configuration and recovery step needed to get a fresh system to a fully working state in case of a disaster, and my test showed that it worked great. It does take a bit of effort to keep it up-to-date, but as shown, really worth it, and it douples as a small wiki for accumulated knowledge. I do wish to play with Ansible at some point if I have the time, but this works for now.
whenever the self hosting mood strikes, i try so much off the wall shit that it’d all be irrevocably broken if i wasn’t able to scrap the whole day and reload last nights back up!
i keep each group of services in their own lxc so at least only a part goes down if so!
Recently read a comment here: “Think you have a backup? Delete your drives now. If you’re hesitant, you don’t really have a backup.”
As true as that is: I’d be in the “hesitant” category because I only back up my data / containers, not my bare metal system and its config. Do you guys? (Proxmox users will probably do, but what about the rest?)
Nice philosophy.
I’m kinda in the middle ground here.
I backup “everything” from my raspberries, and just \home for laptops but for an actual disaster recovery I’d just do a clean install, get an IP address and then reinstall everything via Ansible, then drag my home data back off the NAS
But… I like that statement. I’ll use that at work.
I actually did that. Or well, I was planning to upgrade the Debian version and instead of doing it in place I replaced the drive (kept the old around for a while just in case) and did a clean install. I didn’t make any new backups or moved configs or anything outside what I already had, the system was back to operations faily quickly. The main reason, I have a markdown file describing every configuration and recovery step needed to get a fresh system to a fully working state in case of a disaster, and my test showed that it worked great. It does take a bit of effort to keep it up-to-date, but as shown, really worth it, and it douples as a small wiki for accumulated knowledge. I do wish to play with Ansible at some point if I have the time, but this works for now.
whenever the self hosting mood strikes, i try so much off the wall shit that it’d all be irrevocably broken if i wasn’t able to scrap the whole day and reload last nights back up!
i keep each group of services in their own lxc so at least only a part goes down if so!