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Cake day: June 21st, 2024

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  • Windows prefers to deactivate or minimize the write cache on removable devices, most of the common Linux distros generally don’t make such changes. Microsoft has a very good reason for that default: not a lot of people actually use the “safely remove hardware” option and if the cache is enabled, using and waiting for that is a hard requirement for the data to have actually made its way onto the drive.



  • Borg or the like with ‘hardcoded’ plaintext/regularly full-disk-encrypted key is acceptable. Someone that has your unencrypted private key sitting on your server has almost certainly already obtained access to the entire set of data you’re backing up, with the backup key itself only meaningfully guarding access to older backups.

    The more important thing is to securely keep extra copies in case the server fails. I keep mine in a group in my password manager, one per repo.