Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2020-08-09 02:07, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> We should all be in the habit of regularly performing a restore to test 
> our backups are working.

I would add -- "to a spare server".  I am loath to overwrite my primary 
server data, out of subliminal fear conditioned by past bad experiences.


High availability is the logical extension of backup-restore-migrate. 
This requires services that support it:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/SambaHA.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/high-availability.html


David