Backup your shits

I suddenly realized that in a stupid late night 4 days ago, I accidentally deleted all the images in my notes by messing with some Git fuckery

  • I tried to make the Git repository around Obsidian notes not track any images
  • I accidentally deleted them in the process
  • Not knowing that I deleted them, I also expired the reflog to compact the git delta store

When I realized the problem, it was really too late to recover through either Git reflog, through Syncthing (because I didn’t enabled versioning). I was in 5 minutes of extreme despair before realizing I also had Borg backup and I was able to browse through it and restore any deleted file I had

Moral of the story?

  1. If you have any files that are worthy of backup, do it as much as fucking possible, and I mean it. Get as much backup as it is financially reasonable to do so.
  2. Document your data backup practice, so at least you have something to go through methodically when shit happens instead of wailing around for 5 minutes like I did.

What I’m bumping today

Fishmans - Long Season