Sacha Chua - tag - backup https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/backup/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:20:27 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty Current state of my backups https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/11/current-state-of-my-backups/ Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:00:00 GMT geek https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=26311 It’s good to have backups. It’s even better to document the backup and recovery procedure, and to test the backups regularly. Here’s where I am in terms of backups and what I’m working on next.

Current state - backups

2013-10-31 What do I want or need to store on my backup drives

 

The biggest weaknesses I need to work on are:

  • Testing my image backups without risking my main computer – maybe a different drive.
  • Setting up offsite backups, probably handled by swapping encrypted drives and keeping one stored at HackLab
  • Cloning my backup VM into a development VM with proper version control and committing, so I can easily copy changes over

I’ve grabbed files from my backup a few times, and I’m so glad I had them. I wish I’d been better at keeping financial statements and things like that from earlier. I have Ledger records but no electronic statements from 2009. I’ve gotten much better at saving statements every month, so now they’re part of my regular archives. Working on it!

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