https://vo.rs/tags/clonezilla/Latest from the Clonezilla desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:45:00 +0000https://vo.rs/story/bare-metal-restore-rehearsing-the-recovery-you-dread/<p>Every backup strategy I have ever written about on this site — Borg, Restic, Kopia, the whole <a href="https://vo.rs/story/the-3-2-1-rule-actually-implemented-at-home/">3-2-1 discipline</a> — answers the question &ldquo;can I get my files back.&rdquo; None of them, by themselves, answer a harder question: if the machine itself is gone, cratered motherboard, stolen chassis, a fire that took the whole rack, how long until a replacement box is running the same services again, and does anyone actually know the steps. That is bare-metal restore, and it is the drill almost nobody rehearses, because rehearsing it means deliberately wrecking a working system to prove you can bring it back.</p>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:45:00 +0000