Hacker News with Generative AI: Backup

Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021) (benjojo.co.uk)
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these buckets.

Data Recovery, Backup, Storage

76 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 13 comments

Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account (ycombinator.com)
Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account

Gmail, Backup, Security, Data Management

4 points by Openai2 9 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails? (ycombinator.com)

Email, Backup, Data Security

32 points by michidk 28 days ago | 76 comments

ZFS native encryption is currently broken for encrypted backups (ycombinator.com)
There are various issues on ZFS native encryption. ZFS native encryption has been especially buggy when raw encrypted zfs snapshots are being sent or received.

Security, ZFS, Backup, Encryption

17 points by amano-kenji 109 days ago | 20 comments

BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH (readthedocs.io)
This section provides information about security and corruption issues.

Backup, Cloud Storage, Software, Security

304 points by AdaX 109 days ago | 120 comments

Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? (ycombinator.com)
How do you backup VMs with installed Postgres, MariaDB instances and local files?

Virtual Machines, Backup, Databases, Data Management

74 points by bykof 115 days ago | 57 comments

Backup Strategies for SQLite in Production (oldmoe.blog)
If you are relying on SQLite as your production database, then it makes sense to have some sort of a backup strategy.

Databases, Backup, SQLite

37 points by mpweiher 118 days ago | 3 comments

Btrfs2s3 maintains a tree of incremental backups in an S3-compatible API (github.com/sbrudenell)
btrfs2s3 maintains a tree of incremental backups in cloud object storage (anything with an S3-compatible API).

Cloud Storage, Backup, S3, Software, Open Source

7 points by Buildstarted 127 days ago | 1 comments

Jmap-backup: Back up Fastmail mailboxes to standard EML format files (github.com/luckman212)
This is a Python program to back up messages from your Fastmail JMAP mailbox.

Python, Email, Backup, Fastmail

10 points by luckman212 131 days ago | 3 comments

Restic 0.17.0 Released (restic.net)

New Releases, Software, Backup

25 points by gslin 175 days ago | 5 comments

Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux (github.com/linuxmint)

Linux, System Administration, Backup, Open Source, Tools

373 points by gballan 179 days ago | 172 comments

Ask HN: What is the Backup plan for another outage like this? (ycombinator.com)

Software, Reliability, Backup, Downtime

10 points by shoebham 183 days ago | 8 comments

Borg 2.0 beta (deduplicating backup program with compression and encryption) (borgbackup.org)