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How often do you run backups on your system? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Basically title. I'm in the process of setting up a proper backup for my configured containers on Unraid and I'm wondering how often I should run my backup script. Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent? Whats your schedule and do you strictly backup your appdata (container configs), or is there other data you include in your backups?

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I honestly don't have too much to back up, so I run one full backup job every Sunday for different directories I care about. They run a check on the directory and only back up any changes or new files. I don't have the space to backup everything, so I only take the smaller stuff and most important. The backup software also allows live monitoring if I enable it, so some of my jobs I have that turned on since I didn't see any reason not to. I reuse the NAS drives that report errors that I replace with new ones to save on money. So far, so good.

Backup software is Bvckup2, and reddit was a huge fan of it years ago, so I gave it a try. It was super cheap for a lifetime license at the time, and it's super lightweight. Sorry, there is no Linux version.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Longest interval is every 24 hours. With some more frequent like every 6 hours or so, like the ones for my game servers.

I have multiple backups (3-2-1 rule), 1 is just important stuff as a file backup, the other is a full bootable system image of everything.

With proper backup software incremental backups don't use any more space unless files are changed, so no real downside to more frequent backups.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 2 months ago

Daily toward all my three locations:

local on the server
in-house but on a different device
offsite

But not all three destinations backup the same amount of data due to storage limitations.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Assuming it is on: Daily

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm always backing up with SyncThing in realtime, but every week I do an off-site type of tarball backup that isn't within the SyncThing setup.

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 2 months ago

@Sunny Backups are done weekly, using Restic (and with '--read-data-subset=9%' to verify that the backup data is still valid).

But that's also in addition to doing nightly Snapraid syncs for larger media, and Syncthing for photos & documents (which means I have copies on 2+ machines).

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Using Kopia, backups are made multiple times per day to Google drive. Only changes are transferred.

Configurations are backed up once per week and manually, stored 4 weeks. Websites and NextCloud data is backed up every hour and stored for a year (although I'm doing this only 7 months now).

Kopia is magic, recommended!

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