I had to rebuild a significant percentage of my homelab after my house was raided by the police and they took about $10k-worth of my gear; desktop, laptop, NAS, hard drives.
However, because in a previous life I'd been responsible for backups and involved in disaster recovery planning I was already kind of prepared with:
- a mirrored on site copy of backups (that they either didn't find or chose to leave behind)
- older hardware that had once been performing the duties of the existing seized gear (I'm a bit of a hoarder, I like repurposing or keeping for just such an occasion)
- multiple off site backups
- pretty good documentation of my setup
I was back up and running within a day or two and had lost maybe a couple of days of data. And it's a home lab, so nothing super important anyway, but a (not really) nice resilience test.
It also gave me the experience to work out a few structural changes to further limit the impact of an event that takes out a bunch of processing and storage.
(After 8 months they told me to pick up all my gear, they found nothing, but thanks for traumatising my kids)
However, because in a previous life I'd been responsible for backups and involved in disaster recovery planning I was already kind of prepared with:
- a mirrored on site copy of backups (that they either didn't find or chose to leave behind)
- older hardware that had once been performing the duties of the existing seized gear (I'm a bit of a hoarder, I like repurposing or keeping for just such an occasion)
- multiple off site backups
- pretty good documentation of my setup
I was back up and running within a day or two and had lost maybe a couple of days of data. And it's a home lab, so nothing super important anyway, but a (not really) nice resilience test.
It also gave me the experience to work out a few structural changes to further limit the impact of an event that takes out a bunch of processing and storage.
(After 8 months they told me to pick up all my gear, they found nothing, but thanks for traumatising my kids)