 backup

Recently I’ve commuted back and forth to a city in the south of Germany to attend a conference for a day. The night I ended up staying at family that lived closer there but on my way back by train I’ve quickly seen that I forgot my laptop there.

This post will go through problems that made me discover in my backup system which I’ve already outlined in the first backup post.

Forgetting the Laptop somewhere is obviously not too tragic, because I knew it would only be for a few days, but not having access to it illustrated how my backups work the same as if the laptop got stolen or something else would’ve happened to it.

Yesterday I’ve had a discussion with my partner about organisation. And being at the intersection of nerd and German I got the need during it to reorganise my paperless-xng to make documents more accessible and sort them more reasonably.

Having <100 documents in there myself, as I haven’t done anything else than being in school / uni normally, I could not on my own find good patterns of what would help very well in sorting them. So came reasonably to the resolution that there are many many people that will have to sort through thousands of documents as a sole person or maybe even tens of thousands in the case of a business, they’ve surely come up with something and indeed they did.

preface

The last few days I’ve been working and battling with my backups and other recovery devices due to wanting to switch the main nvme drive on my thinkpad t470 that I use daily.

It was a nice way to ensure recoverability of my whole system on imaginable incidents that could happen, such as:

• device just dies
• get robbed
• device breaks
• lose the device
• drive corrupts
• I enter a wrong command

In the following I go through thoughts and the process of what I’ll change now to streamline the system to make it a faster recoverable and more reliant.