Backups must be restored and verified—I measured the conditions under which SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL fail to restore and created a verification script

When judging whether a backup can be restored based solely on exit codes and integrity checks, I found conditions in SQLite, ...
How-To Geek

Proton Drive CLI makes automated, encrypted cloud backups simple

Backups are one of those jobs everyone knows they should do, but almost nobody does consistently. You mean to copy your files ...
iMasters

Cinco palavras do SQL que fazem o PostgreSQL trabalhar mais do que o necessário

Benchmark com 2 milhões de linhas mostra o custo real de UNION, MATERIALIZED, ORDER BY random() e SELECT * no PostgreSQL 18.6 ...

Preparing for Ransomware: I Built a System to Encrypt XServer's Production DB and Automatically Back It Up to OneDrive

Recently, I have been seeing news about cyberattacks and ransomware damage to companies much more frequently.The ransomware ...
Cyber Security News

Hackers Breach Two Major South Korean Churches, Exposing Data of Over 1 Million People

Hackers breached two major South Korean churches, exposing more than one million congregant records and extensive financial ...
ESPN

Ranking all 32 backup NFL quarterbacks for the 2026 season

The very first game of the 2026 NFL season provided an important reminder about backup quarterbacks: They don't really impact a team's chance to win ... until they do. And then they suddenly really do ...
community.openai

ChatGPT Sites: Are automatic database backups and point-in-time recovery available?

I’m looking for clarification about database backup and recovery in ChatGPT Sites rather than reporting a confirmed malfunction. Our Site is a task-management application with persistent data in D1.
macobserver

iPhone 18 Pro Data Transfer: iCloud Backup, Quick Start or a Cable, Compared

Apple publishes three separate ways to move data onto a new iPhone, and iPhone 18 Pro buyers get to pick whichever fits the morning they actually have. Quick Start is wireless and immediate, an iCloud ...
Engadget

How to use your MacBook's built-in backup tool instead of paying for cloud storage

Modern cloud storage, the way we know it, has been around commercially since 2006, when Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (S3). In the following years, personal cloud storage rose in ...
XDA Developers

I automated backups for my self-hosted services, and I finally stopped worrying about data loss

Beginning his professional journey in the tech industry in 2018, Yash spent over three years as a Software Engineer. After that, he shifted his focus to empowering readers through informative and ...
ZDNet

Back up your files, or else: Here’s my easy 3-2-1 routine – and how to build yours

One of the best-loved movies ever made almost disappeared before it was released, because an engineer working on a Unix workstation accidentally deleted the contents of an entire server. It is the ...
XDA Developers

This self-hosted tool replaced a year of backup scripts, and now I barely think about backups at all

Beginning his professional journey in the tech industry in 2018, Yash spent over three years as a Software Engineer. After that, he shifted his focus to empowering readers through informative and ...