I see many posts asking about what other lemmings are hosting, but I’m curious about your backups.
I’m using duplicity myself, but I’m considering switching to borgbackup when 2.0 is stable. I’ve had some problems with duplicity. Mainly the initial sync took incredibly long and once a few directories got corrupted (could not get decrypted by gpg anymore).
I run a daily incremental backup and send the encrypted diffs to a cloud storage box. I also use SyncThing to share some files between my phone and other devices, so those get picked up by duplicity on those devices.
Backups? What backups?
Ik it’s bad but I can’t be bothered.
wing and a pray baby!
Exactly! I pray every morning.
Dis me
Cross my fingers 🤞
Thoughts and prayers.
What’s my what lmao?
I use borgbackup + zabbix for monitoring.
At home, I have all my files get backed up to rsync.net since the price is lower for borg repos.
At work, I have a dedicated backup server running borgbackup that pulls backups from my servers and stores it locally as well as uploading to rsync.net. The local backup means restoring is faster, unless of course that dies.
+1 for Borg! I use Borgmatic to backup files and databases to BorgBase. It costs me $80/yr for 1TB of backups which I think is sensible. I also selfhost an instance of Healthchecks.io for monitoring.
moved from borg to restic. hourly backup of 6Tb mailserver is just fine
I use rclone to encrypt and send my most valuable data to OneDrive.
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Going with S3 Glacier is probably the cheaper choice but 1TB for €8 with included access to the Office suite is an okay deal for me.
Restic using resticprofile for scheduling and configuring it. I do frequent backups to my NAS and have a second schedule that pushes to Backblaze B2.
Another +1 for restic. To simplify the backup I am however using https://autorestic.vercel.app/, which is triggered from systemd timers for automated backups.
I realized at one point that the amount of data that is truly irreplaceable to me amounts to only - 500GB. So for this important data I back up to my NAS, then from there backup to Backblaze. I also create M-Discs. Two sets, one for home and one I keep at a fiends’ place. Then because “why not” and I already had them sitting around I also backup to two sd cards and keep them on site and off site.
I also backup my other data like tv/movies/music/etc but the sheer volume of data gives me one option, that being a couple usb hard drives I back up to from my NAS.
It’s still a WIP but that’s pretty much where I’m at as well, was going crazy trying to figure out which multi terabyte service I was going to use when in reality the actually irreplaceable stuff falls well under a single TB of data lol. Might go with Backblaze as well.
3 2 1 with Restic and B2
Restic is so awesome and in combination with backblaze it’s probably the most cost effective solution.
Aha yeah, basically the same as me, B2 is cheap as, I get a bill for less than a dollar each month. 👍
i backup locally to a second NAS (daily)
i use rclone crypt to backup to the cloud (hetzner storage box, weekly)
the most important stuff i also backup to an external harddisk (from time to time, whenever i’m in the mood / have some spare time)
You basically described my backup strategy, although I do the Hetzner box daily too (on 1gbit synchronous fiber, so why not)
if i had a better upload connection than my current 10MBit i would also do it daily :D
I run a restic backup to a local backup server that syncs most of the data (except the movie collection because it’s too big). I also keep compressed config/db backups on the live server.
I eventually want to add a cloud platform to the mix, but for now this setup works fine
Restic is great! I run it in a container using
mazzolino/resticimage hooked up to Backblaze for all my important stuff!how much are you paying for backblaze? Cost is one of the reasons why I don’t do cloud backups
It’s actually a bit more than I thought, $2.2 USD / mo for (currently) 469.2 GB
I backup locally to my NAS with Synologys Drive software, the NAS does a 10 day rolling snapshot of the backup folder. First I then had Hyper Backup set up to do a versioned backup from the NAS to a cloud provider.
But I got scared of the thought that a corruption would propagate through the whole backup chain. So now I do an additional backup for the most important stuff directly from my PC with restic + resticprofile to a Hetzner storage box. I know they do not give any promises about data reliability, but I think chances of the local and remote backup breaking at the same time are pretty slim.
Restic is sending a fail/done ping to an uptime-kuma instance I host myself to monitor the backup which then notifies me with ntfy if backups fail or are missed for a couple of days.
Personal files: Syncthing between all devices and a TrueNAS Scale NAS. TrueNAS does snapshots 4 times a day, with a retention policy of 30 days. From there, a nightly sync to Backblaze B2 happens, also with a 30 day retention policy. Occasional manual backups to external drives too.
Homelab/Servers: Proxmox VM and LXC container exports nightly to TrueNAS, with a retention policy of 7 days. A separate weekly export happens to a separate TrueNAS share, that gets synced to B2 weekly, with a retention policy of 30 says. Also has occasional external drive backups.
I have a raspberry pi with an external drive with scripts to rsync each morning. Then I have S3 deep glacier backups for off site.
restic + rclone crypt + whatever storage server/service is good enough. currently using hetzner storage for my backups. because they’ve auto snapshots on top of my backups.
I also use this setup for backups on servers, not only at home
Large/important volumes on SAN-> B2.
Desktop Macs -> Time Machine on SAN & Backblaze (for a few)
Borgbackup is great and what we used for all our servers when they were pets. It’s a great tool, very easy to script and use.