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Guide: Backups you can actually restore

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A backup you never tested is a hope, not a backup. Here is my routine:

Nightly backup at 04:30 (not 03:00, see the Zigbee thread).
Copy off the machine to a NAS.
Once a quarter, restore onto a spare SD card and boot it.

It takes 20 minutes a quarter and it saved me twice.

The 04:30 tip deserves its own sticky.