Protecting My Entire Life With A Solid Backup Plan

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The disaster recovery mindset no one explains: why real engineers sleep better at night

🎯 You’ll Discover:
• How to design a personal + professional 3-2-1 backup strategy
• The biggest mistake most engineers make with cloud vs local backups
• How to automate encrypted Linux backups with Restic and systemd
• Why relying on Google Drive or YouTube isn’t a real backup strategy

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📚 Chapters:
00:00 Why your backup strategy probably sucks
01:15 The real reason I finally took backups seriously
03:18 What I actually back up (devices, content, and life)
07:09 The 3-2-1 backup principle explained
09:59 How I organize my backups using Johnny.Decimal
12:34 My Synology setup: central hub for all data
17:35 Offsite backups with iDrive E2 and Hyper Backup
19:41 My strategy for backing up 50TB+ of video
21:04 How I use Restic, systemd, and scripts for automation
22:19 All scripts and templates available in KubeCraft

Keep building,
Mischa van den Burg – Senior DevOps Engineer, Microsoft MVP, 55K subs, 700+ private students
Founder of KubeCraft, the #1 DevOps Career Accelerator & Community ★★★★★

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