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Anything I have that is super important is just uploaded to a server with backups turned on. Becomes 100%, not my problem anymore.
Until the backups don’t work.
Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.
Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.
Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable
Retrievable is a start, at least.
Sorry, I should have said verified. it reads through the backup and checks data integrity/checksums etc. so you know it can be retrieved properly.
Testing a back isn't that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.
Not your problem... until the hosting provider publishes a press release about some recent fire or flooding in the data center that "only impacted less than 1% of our customers"... and you turn out to be among them.
For "super important" stuff, I keep closer to 10 copies spread around in different places. Normal stuff is 321, and everything else is temporary.
eh, I've never hit that issue but I also have a copy of everything locally.