One one hand, if I lose the database or manage to forget that password, I am fucked.
On the other hand, that’s also the case with 2FA.
The latter has already happened to me, but I have since switched to different software that lets me properly manage backups rather than doing only cloud bullshit.
Cisco Duo. That piece of shit doesn’t even do version control.
I just turned on an old phone, and there goes my backup, overwritten by old data.
No.
The password is actually physically written up on paper in a huge stack without reference or context in a “if something happens” folder for my wife.
I also manage my 2FA in that safe which counters the idea of the second factor as defined by the companies but my safe itself is a second factor.
Database loss is impossible for me because of a misconception in your description: basically by definition, backups can’t be “overwritten” with old data . A backup is write-once. Everything else is just a sparkly copy.
I’m serious: change your backup strategy please! Incrementell backups don’t use that mich more space and actually back up a status of what you had no matter what you do after or why your local data is broken.
“I overwrote my stuff” should never destroy a backup IMO.
