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Reminder: you don't have a backup until you've restored from it | Myynk

Reminder: you don't have a backup until you've restored from it

Lost an SSD last weekend. I had backups! Nightly! Encrypted! Off-site!

The encryption key was also on the SSD.

restic: wrong password or no key found

That's the post. Go do a test restore tonight. Put your key somewhere that isn't the machine you're backing up.

@dev_null_dan · Steady contributor

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I'm so sorry. And thank you. Going to print my recovery keys tonight.

A piece of paper in a drawer has more uptime than anything I've ever built.

What did you lose in the end?

Photos were synced elsewhere, thankfully. Lost a year of notes and all my config. The config hurts more than I expected.

Testing a restore this weekend. It's in my calendar, so now it's real.

I don't even run a homelab, and this just made me go check my laptop backups.

I'm stealing this for the next time someone asks why teachers keep paper copies.

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