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  • Not to be confused with the Zen of Backup…

    A novice asked the master: “What must I do to learn the Zen of Backup?” The master whacked the novice in the head, grabbed the keyboard, and ran sudo rm -rf /. The novice smiled and left feeling enlightened.

    by divbzero
  • Haven't seen that in ages and thought it had moved. 20GB tape containing all the corporate goodies. That makes me smile.
    by throwaway81523
  • For reference: a comprehensive backup + security plan for individuals https://nau.github.io/triplesec/
    by ahazred8ta
  • I miss the World Wide Web, man...
    by happyrock

  •   He loaded the week-old backup, but it was the same. Eventually, he realized that the virus had struck four months before. He returned to the master and said: "Master, you have the only uncorrupted copy!"

  But the master had already overwritten it with a copy of DOOM.
    by tovve
  • > The master said, "Do not despair, for yesterday I took one of your backup tapes and posted it to my brother in China. He will return it."

    The master should not have done this, even by sea mail, for the very first law of backup is: you will only learn to make proper backups after you suffer a catastrophic loss of data.

    Protecting the student from this is depriving him of the only true knowledge, the one that is not merely stored in the head, but burned into the skin.

    by bambax
  • > The novice became suspicious and said: "Master, is all this 'Tao of Backup' stuff just so you can sell more copies of Veracity?"

    > The master said: "Now you are truly enlightened."

    by ibotty

  •     The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
    The master made no reply.
    The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.
    If that's your situation, it might be worth backing up applications. However, there are better solutions that make this irrelevant. For instance, using NixOS, you can literally back up a single text file describing your system setup, and you can recreate the system from it automatically in minutes, guaranteed to be bit for bit identical.
    by dbdr

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