Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
(Jnr trashed the house before I got home to recover the server from a backup, now magnify that by 'the server could not be recovered and Jnr's world was lost'.)
Is Microsoft’s consumer-grade on-premises backup the only defence you have against data loss?
Nope, the Minecraft Server is backed up weekly to OneDrive and I also maintain an encrypted offsite backup of all files (including the Minecraft server), this is refreshed every 2 months. (These are protection against 'the house burned down' scenario.)
Internally I maintain various backups onto internal hard drives, external hard drives and a NAS. These are done via scripted robocopy jobs, Goodsync and up until a couple of nights ago, Windows Backup. (The total backup real estate now runs into terabytes, hence flinging the whole lot up into the cloud isn't viable yet, but I'm hoping we'll be there in a year or two. Manx Telecom are laying fibre around the island at the moment but it's not to our house yet, and cloud storage needs to come down in price a bit. For now we're on VDSL with only 10meg up.)
We also all have our own 1TB OneDrive space which does Documents, Desktop and Pictures for each of us.
So for the Minecraft server, for example, I have three local copies, one cloud copy, and one encrypted offsite copy. The point of having the local backups available is for a quick restore of the server when required, which has been needed several times over the last 2-3 years, the most recent being when the server corrupted a couple of weeks ago.
Another one that springs to mind is when Mrs Hearthly asked for command blocks to be enabled on the server. 'Are you sure you know what you're doing? You can really break things badly with command blocks you know', and Mrs Hearthly is like, 'Yes of course I am I've looked it up', one failed experiment with portals later and she literally managed to annihilate the entire world apart from the little cave that her and Jnr were standing in. 'Would you like a restore from backup then?', I enquired.....
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Where by “consumer grade” it turns out I mean
actually deprecated.
Yes I was very much aware of this, which leads me to fear they might not fix it, even though they've broken it accidentally.
I might just buy some extra Goodsync licences and be done with it.