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That is 500Mb+ because the 'designer' just stuffed the highest quality image in they could as a background on the whole thing

Must be, because the call for this update went out a week ago. Are they late or is the reporter being responsible? I know which my money's on...

You are right to be afraid. I had a similar story, and am still recovering and sorting what data is recoverable. Nearly lost age 0.5-1.5 years of media of my daughters life this way.

As others have said, don't replicate your existing backup. Do two backups. Preferably on different mediums, spinning disk/ssd eg.

If one backup is corrupted or something nasty is introduced, you will lose both. This is one of the times it is appropriate to do the work twice.

I've built two backup mini PCs, and I replicate to them pretty continuously. Otherwise, look at something like Borg base/alternatives.

Remember, 3-2-1 and restore testing. It's not a backup unless you can restore it.

You wouldn't download a fridge, would you?

https://fridge0.branchable.com/

You know what I would buy? Hitman set in ancient Egypt.

Infiltrating a workgang forced to build a pyramid, putting a spitting cobra into a nasty enforcer's chamber pot because he owes the Potiphar some serious myrrh?

Sign me up.

The thin end of the wedge for anything is always sex

Everything's a trade off, as you already know. I still use lets encrypt, despite the fact that I know attackers watch CT logs, and they'll know as soon as I mint a cert.

I wish it was new

You know what sideloading is, masses do not. It's easy to generate negative connotation with a word that has less context.

Everyone knows what install means to them already, and no one hates sideloading as a word. It's about fighting a disinformation war and trying to get you to join in, just without explaning it.

Fair enough, I did assume the target audience was selfhosters based on the question.

As for provider backups - well, you'd hope. But M$ doesn't do user available backups, so I'd be surprised if that was bundled by the average SaaS provider.

And if you don't know what database you're running, how are you backing it up?

If you don't know what database you're running, are you bothering to do a full shutdown before backups? Are you doing backups at all...

Don't worry about him, he's just an anti-Lemmite