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		hassancf on March 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k... Exactly. And if it’s a local backup, that local backup needs to be taken offline, to avoid the same issue if things get deleted in the cloud

aftbit on March 16, 2023 [–]

Or use a versioned backup so you can recover from deletes or corruption. ZFS snapshots, restic versions, even rsync + symlinks can work.

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