On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 18:56 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > I use mirrored SCSI drives in a USB3 caddy directly connected to the > > desktop. The drives are formatted as RAID1 with BTRFS, so are > > checksummed and deduped. They are also removable and if one should fail > > it can be replaced. The caddy is independently powered and is only > > mounted during backup/restore operations. > > > > The number one rule of backups: if it's not automated then it's a > > problem, not a solution. I use Borg (via Borgmatic) in a nightly script > > to backup what I care about. > > > > I've never lost data in this setup, but of course YMMV. Nothing would > > ever be touched during a system update, and of course I have my /home > > on a different drive from /root. > > > > poc > From a "black box" perspective, this seems much like what Tim was saying. > You're an experienced professional sys.admin., I'm not an IT > professional. This is intimidating to me. But as with what Tim said, > I'll consider this as I continue trying to plan the new desktop.
There are aspects of this that you could simplify. I did it this way because I wanted as much security as was practical without spending a lot of money. The caddy was about £20 and the two SATA drives (not SCSI as I said originally) were recovered from an old system. However I do reiterate my main point: *If it's not automated, it's not a backup system.* poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
