Friendly Reminder: Backup Your Lab, too.

I was in the middle of migrating an old desktop to a new case to be an iSCSI target for my new home lab, and somewhere, somehow the motherboard died. New motherboard is on its way, but even with a fairly simple upgrade, bad things can happen. Luckily, I took the time to do a backup of the system before the transplant, so even though my RAID and OS disks may be close to useless, my data is still safe.

All I had on the system was ripped movies and tv shows, OS and software ISOs, and a couple of test VMs, but it would have been a huge pain to rebuild it. As soon as my new motherboard gets in, I'll start restoring my data and getting it ready to go, but none of that would have been possible without a recent, good backup. Back up everything. Twice.