Will it also get rid of these pesky stains on my shirt?

Terrified that sounds so on point.

Holy hell this is great. Thank you

In our universe; this.

In the stargate universe; the replicators were artificially created, but the others follow natural selection…

Gosh I’m sure that this will be some dangerously delicate process that will be too hard for me…

pihole -up

Oh. Cool.

I got stuck in a phone tree and was so frustrated I just screamed give me a fucking rep. And it actually did.

Stop

The single best thing you can do security wise, is to NOT have any personal data on a web facing server.

Separate the data

Rereading it does look like you are doing the things right; so just audit what is on the public side. - your calendar and tasks- cool

Your photo and docs, do those need to be on there?

they are not accessible on the WAN

If they are on a server that is publicly accessible, please move them to a different location

Otherwise you sound like your doing well

Western digital external. My book 20tb or whatever size works for you. I blew through a 12 and 16 filled with photos and videos…

USB 3 and portable; I use exfat as my friend keeps a copy at his house.

And I just rotate through 3. One at home one at work and one with my friend.

FreeFileSync to keep everything updated

No. Not really

For long term storage LTO is the answer.

If cost/ lifetime storage are the only factors

I prefer drives; it is a cost I’m willing to pay as speed is more important, at home —At work we have both because 3-2-1

However I have been looking at tape for home use for some long term storage

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Yep. And even I did it in my post. Notice what is missing?

Test your backups!

Agreed… Yes, and… specific to backups all the encryption….

Your production stuff, yes should be as well

Would that be sufficient

No.

3-2-1

Three copies; your working copy, and a cloud copy, and (as an example) on and external HD that you keep at a friend’s house….

On two separate media… so yes cloud can cover that

One off site. So yeah cloud covers that.

Encryption on your off site copies. Yeah I don’t care if they are Linux ISOs or your grandmas recipes. ENCRYPTED

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

We do a quarterly test.

I have the DB guy make a change, I nuke it and ensure I can restore it.

For us. I don’t work for Veeam, while I don’t like their licensing. Veeam is pretty good

Hth

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah. It is kinda hard.

Backups. First and foremost.

Now once that is sorted, what if your DB gets corrupted. You test your backups

Learn how to verify and restore

It is a hassle. That’s why there is a constant back and forth between on prem and cloud in the enterprise

We make it a drinking game…

Whenever a salespeople or a demo uses weasel language. DRINK!

Thank you. I’m totally going to steal “Tech debt reduction “. Ffs

King Geoffrey * would like a word.

So would Draco Malfoy

(Fixed the spelling)

Sorry for being “that guy”. But don’t use google maps if your primary concern is privacy?

Try magic earth

They use Open Street Maps instead both they and Apple say the app does not send your data back to them.

Sigh, kinda… but don’t forget to factor in your backup costs too