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Somehow I had a database corruption and I did not know how to restore from backup. It was a bad experience until I saw that it worked. Make regular and check your backups.

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[โ€“] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like there's room for a tool that checks backups

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

or ai that evaluates. For me the backup works if the whole system actually works. Its more commonly known as disaster recovery.