Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Spain will require mobile networks to have backup systems that maintain connectivity when power outages occur. Per a royal decree that will be approved by the end of 2026, mobile network operators (MNOs) and infrastructure companies will need to install batteries or other … ⌘ Read more
Backup-Panne in Japan: Datenträger mit Millionen von Kundendaten verschusselt
Eine SSD mit gesicherten Daten von fast elf Millionen Einwohnern Japans ist auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden - und seit Wochen nicht auffindbar. ( Datenleck, Back-up)
Power prices easing but investment risks remain, Infrastructure Commission says
New Zealand’s electricity problem is no longer the cost of building renewables, but whether the market has enough confidence, competition and backup capacity to build new supply fast enough, the Infrastructure Commission says.
A new report from Te Waihanga, Shifting currents: Energy infrastructure in transition, says the market has been out of balance since 2019, with … ⌘ Read more
(g+) iCloud: Von notorisch unzuverlässig zu technisch höchst anspruchsvoll
iCloud ist ein eng verzahntes System aus Synchronisation, Backups, Dateiablage und verschlüsselter Datenreplikation. Ein Blick unter die Oberfläche. Ein Deep Dive von Florian Bottke ( iCloud, Apple)
Used Waymo Robotaxi Batteries Become Backup Storage For Power Grids
Waymo and B2U Storage Solutions have struck a “strategic supply agreement” to repurpose used batteries from Waymo’s electric robotaxi fleet into stationary storage for California and Texas power grids. The arrangement could give robotaxi batteries a second life storing renewable energy after they’re no longer suitable for vehicle use. I … ⌘ Read more
pgBackRest will continue
In April, David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, announced that he had archived\
the project and it would no longer be maintained due to lack of
sponsorship. On May 18, he announced
that a number of sponsors have stepped forward to ensure its continued
development:
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So apparently this is the default when making a new Matrix account, which makes me wonder why we’re even doing this whole crypto dance in the first place … ?
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So, it’s plenty good enough for them.
Yeah, but on the other hand, you can’t even log in normally to a Matrix/Element account. I mean using username + password. It’s not expected that you ever log out or lose your browser session. If you do, you must use a one-time backup code (that you must create and save beforehand) to log in again.
To be fair, I can’t say that I fully understand what Matrix is doing in the first place. The text that I quoted reads like they have your keys. But they also claim that they only store this stuff encryped: https://element.io/en/help#encryption5 So … encrypted with what? Only option here is my password, isn’t it? (But if my password was good enough to reclaim an account … why do all the other stuff …)
Matrix takes end-to-end encryption seriously. When I ran a Matrix server for the family, the family members would regularly lose their keys, because they didn’t pay attention to something. That’s on purpose! Or rather, that was on purpose. Maybe it’s different these days?
No clue.
Incus 7.0 LTS released
Version\
7.0 of the Incus container and
virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the inclusion of a low-level backup API, the addition\
of basic S3 operations directly in Incus to replace the now-unmaintained
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Telehealth Abortion Is Still Possible Without Mifepristone
Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place. ⌘ Read more
pgBackRest is no longer maintained
David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, has archived\
the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.
After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did
not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for
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🍉西瓜备份 – iPhone 相册自动备份工具：可备份至 NAS、外置硬盘、WebDAV、SMB[限免至4.30]
如果你不太想把照片放在 iCloud 中，那其实还有一种更“本地化”的方式，就是放在外置硬盘、NAS、支持 WebDAV 的网盘，甚至通过 SMB 备份直接到电脑中。@Appinn 西瓜备份就是专门干这件事的，目前正在限免，截止 2026年4月30日。 来自发现频道，开发者自荐：https://me ⌘ Read more
Startup Pitches ‘Brainless Clones’ To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey “organ sacks”: creating human “brainless clones” or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it … ⌘ Read more
I almost lost my email archive by messing up a server configuration, but luckily I had a local backup made through the amazing Pikabackup. I sent their open source collective some money to show my gratitude.
The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.
Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven to … ⌘ Read more
Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension
Anna’s Archive lost control of its primary .org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold – “an action that’s typically taken by the domain name registry,” reports TorrentFreak. Despite mounting legal pressure and speculation tied to its Spotify backup, the site remains accessible via multiple alternative domains, underscoring t … ⌘ Read more
Let’s hope that the two cakes turn out better than last week: 
Got some gingerbread as backup. Yeah, best lighting…
Signal Private Messenger Rolls Out Secure Backups for iPhone
Encrypted messaging platform Signal now offers secure backups on iPhone, letting users save and restore messages if they lose access to their device.
There are free and paid versions of Signal’s secure backups. The free version lets users store up to 100MB of text messages, including photos, videos, and files from … ⌘ Read more
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** Encrypt & Decrypt Database Fields in Spring Boot Like a Pro (2025 Secure Guide)**
“Your database backup just leaked. Is your data still safe?”
[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infos … ⌘ Read more
No I don’t want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Article URL: https://idiallo.com/byte-size/say-no-to-onedrive-backup
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559023
Points: 501
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NIRS fire destroys [South Korean] government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
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Fire destroys S. Korean government’s cloud storage system, no backups available
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFS…
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483386
Points: 1162
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DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and […] ⌘ Read more
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de WE NEED MORE BACKUPS!!!!!!!!!!!1
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hey yall i accidentally nuked my main hard drive for the second time ever yesterday. spent the rest of the day setting up my PC again. thankfully i didn't lose anything super crucial, i have most of that on another drive
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh no. 😨 Backups! We need more backups!
linode’s having a major outage (ongoing as of writing, over 24 hours in) and my friend runs a site i help out with on one of their servers. we didn’t have recent backups so i got really anxious about possible severe data loss considering the situation with linode doesn’t look great (it seems like a really bad incident).
…anyway the server magically came back online and i got backups of the whole application and database, i’m so relieved :‘)
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Running monthly backups…
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
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@xuu@txt.sour.is or @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do either of you have time this weekend to test upgrading your pod to the new cacher branch? 🤔 It is recommended you take a full backup of you pod beforehand, just in case. Keen to get this branch merged and to cut a new release finally after >2 years 🤣
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All these remind me of the "blog" ability once existed in Yarnd. I hate to be the party pooper, but little to non interest from me. LOL. I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though. It is rather limiting right now.
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@bender@twtxt.net Lemme look at the old backup…
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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@prologic@twtxt.net @bmallred@staystrong.run So is restic considered stable by now? “Stable” as in “stable data format”, like a future version will still be able to retrieve my current backups. I mean, it’s at version “0.18”, but they don’t specify which versioning scheme they use.
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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I use restic and Backblaze B2 for offline backup storage at a cost of $6/TB/month. I don’t backup my entire ~20TB NAS and its datasets however, so I’m only paying about ~$2/month right now. I only backup the most important things I cannot afford to lose or annot re-created.
(#7n4klda) I use restic and Backblaze B2 for offline backup storage at a cost of $6/TB/month. I don’t backup my entire ~20TB NAS and its dataset …
I use restic and Backblaze B2 for offline backup storage at a cost of $6/TB/month. I don’t backup my entire ~20TB NAS and its datasets however, so I’m only paying about ~$2/month right now. I only backup the most important things I cannot afford to lose or annot re-created. ⌘ Read more
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de there are many other similar backup tools. I would love to hear what will make you pick Borg above the rest.
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@lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …
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On top of my usual backups (which are already offsite, but it requires me carrying a hard disk to that other site), I think I might rent a storage server and use Borg. 🤔 Hoping that their encryption is good enough. Maybe that’ll also finally convince me to get a faster internet connection. 😂
Add support for skipping backup if data is unchagned · 0cf9514e9e - backup-docker-volumes - Mills 👈 I just discovered today, when running backups, that this commit is why my backups stopped working for the last 4 months. It wasn’t that I was forgetting to do them every month, I broke the fucking tool 🤣 Fuck 🤦♂️
Add support for skipping backup if data is unchagned · 0cf9514e9e - backup-docker-volumes - Mills 👈 I just discovered today, when running ba …
Add support for skipping backup if data is unchagned · 0cf9514e9e - backup-docker-volumes - Mills 👈 I just discovered today, when running backups, that this commit is why my backups stopped working for the last 4 months. It wasn’t that I was forgetting to do them every month, I broke the fuckin … ⌘ Read more
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@prologic it's fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.
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@thecanine@twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I decided to start over (from scratch). Just let me know what you want and I’ll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account (by hand) and avatar at least 🤣
(#phvll7a) @thecanine@thecanine I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I dec …
@thecanine @twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I decided to start over ( from scratch). Just let me know what you want and I’ll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account ( by hand) and avatar at least 🤣 ⌘ Read more
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@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so sorry I fucked things up 🥲 I hope you can trust I’ll try to do a better job of backups and data going forward 🤗
(#jmekihq) @thecanine@thecanine I’m so sorry I fucked things up 🥲 I hope you can trust I’ll try to do a better job of backups and data going …
@thecanine @twtxt.net I’m so sorry I fucked things up 🥲 I hope you can trust I’ll try to do a better job of backups and data going forward 🤗 ⌘ Read more
This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working… I’ve now rectified this…
This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided …
This weekend ( as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup ( we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own … ⌘ Read more
Oh well. I’ve gone and done it again! This time I’ve lost 4 months of data because for some reason I’ve been busy and haven’t been taking backups of all the things I should be?! 🤔 Farrrrk 🤬