Subj : backup for windows pc?
To   : August Abolins
From : Deon George
Date : Mon Sep 18 2023 13:21:12

  Re: backup for windows pc?
  By: August Abolins to Deon George on Sun Sep 17 2023 07:19 pm

Hey Aug,

 > The "restic repair [command]" option sounds ominous.  Have you
 > ever encountered the need to repair a backup?  Have you ever
 > restored a back up with restic?

I've not done a full restore, but I've done many "small" restores - ie: a bunch of directories and a bunch of files.

You can even fuse mount a backup - which I did when first playing with it, but never done it since - that was good, you could navigate your backup like another mount point.

I regularly also restore my production database backups into a test/dev environment from the restic respository (the product DB backup is piped to stdout, and into restic, so the restore is the other direction).

I've never had any issues so never had to think about the "repair" command.

I dont do a "purge" that often - every month or so (some backups are purged weekly via a cron, but some arent) - so my backup has many 1000's of "snapshots" as it refers to them.

Like anything that is encrypted, if you loose the key your backups are toast, so dont loose the key. :)


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