
This is to have three copies of your data with one as primary backup and with two other backup copies.


Ravi Pendekanti, SVP of HDD Product Management and Marketing at WDC recommends following the 3-2-1 rule for data backup. The key, as ever, is to treat information assets according to their importance to your business and manage risk accordingly.” Jason Konzak, SVP at Flexential said, “Without proper backups and incident response plans, businesses are unable to recover data effectively and efficiently, putting long term business success on the line.” Rob Price, Director of the Field Security Office of Snow Software said that, “Backups represent the last line of defense for everything from fat fingers to state-sponsored attacks. According to a 2023 article, 70% of small firms go out of business within a year of a large data loss and the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. World Backup Day helps remind people to take action now.”Īccording to some older data (2015) from Kroll Ontrack: 67 percent of data loss is caused by hard drive crashes or system failure, 14 percent of data loss is caused by human error and 10 percent of data loss is a result of software failure. According to Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, “Our research with the Harris Poll shows that in 2022, 67% of computer owners accidentally deleted something, and 54% suffered data loss-yet only 10% are backing up daily. I'm not sure how to move the Backblaze files over my existing home directory while its in use, and using a temporary username could mess up the permissions (e.g., my username could no longer be associated with the same UID or GID).Many of you are vulnerable to losing valuable data. What is the best way to restore my (and my wife's) home folders, including key chains, from file backups on Backblaze? I'd like to keep the same usernames. Backblaze backed up only the home folders, including hidden and ~/Library files and folders. That leaves me with restoring from Backblaze. Time Machine provides Error 112 ("sparsebundle could not be accessed") and I can't verify it using Time Machine (as far as I know) without Time Machine selecting the volume it cannot access (which seems strange to me - I can browse the data files without issue). I've used Disk Utility to verify the APFS sparsebundle of the Time Machine backup, and it says there were errors it could not fix. Unfortunately, the Time Machine backup seems to be corrupt / I cannot figure out how to fix it. Both appeared to be working and the last backup date from both is several weeks ago based on the website for Backblaze and the last time a data file was touched on Time Machine. I use both Time Machine off a Synology NAS (RAID 1) and Backblaze.

My 2020 M1 MacBook Air recently died, and Apple promptly repaired by replacing the logic board, among other components.
