Selfhosted

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.

In the process of moving stuff over to Backblaze. Home PCs, few clients PCs, client websites all pointing at it now, happy with the service and price. Two unraid instances push the most important data to an azure storage a/c - but imagine i'll move that to BB soon as well.
Docker backups are similar to post above, tarball the whole thing weekly as a get out of jail card - this is not ideal but works for now until i can give it some more attention.

*i have no link to BB other than being a customer who wanted to reduce reliance on scripts and move stuff out of azure for cost reasons.

A kind of "extended" 3-2-1, more a 4-3-2. As nearly everything I host runs on Docker, I usually pause the stack, .tar.bz everything and back that up on several devices (NAS, off-site machine, external HDD).

The neat thing about keeping every database in its own container is the resulting backup "package", which can easily be restored as a whole without having to mess with db dumps, permissions, etc.

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.

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.

I use syncthing to sync files between phone, pc and server.

The server runs proxmox, with a proxmox backup server in VM. A raspberry pi pulls the backups to an usb ssd, and also rclone them to backblaze.

Syncthing is nice. I don't backup my pc, as it is done by the server. Reinstalling the pc requires almost no preparation, just set up syncthing again

321 strategy: 3 copies of everything important, 2 on-site, 1 in cloud. I have a TrueNAS Scale NAS running RAID5 on ZFS. All the laptops, desktops, etc. backup to the NAS. (Mostly Macs, so we use time machine over the network). So the original laptop/desktop is 1 copy. The NAS is a second copy on-site, and then TrueNAS has lots of cloud options. I use Amazon S3 myself, but there are lots of choices.

Prior to this I had a Synology NAS. It was "small" (6TB), so it has a RAID mirror of 6TB drives and a single 6TB external USB that had a backup of the mirrored pair (second copy on-site). Then I also used Synology's software to backup to S3.

For my Internet-facing VMs, they all run in xcp-ng and I use Xen Orchestra to manage them. I run regular snapshots nightly, and then use NFS to copy them to a cloud server. That's sloppy, and sometimes doesn't work. So the in-the-house stuff is backed up well. The VMs are mostly relying on Xen snapshots and RAID 5.

I back up everything to my home server... then I run out of money and cross my fingers that it doesn't fail.

Honestly though my important data is backed up on a couple of places, including a cloud service. 90% of my data is replaceable, so the 10% is easy to keep safe.

Cross my fingers 🤞

What's my what lmao?

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

Backups? What backups?

Ik it's bad but I can't be bothered.

3 2 1 with Restic and B2

I just use duplicity and upload to Google drive.

I'm paying Google for their enterprise gSuite which is still "unlimited", and using rclone's encrypted drive target to back up everything. Have a couple of scripts that make tarballs of each service's files, and do a full backup daily.

It's probably excessive, but nobody was ever mad about the fact they had too many backups if they needed them, so whatever.

Irreplaceable media: NAS->Back blaze NAS->JBOD via duplicacy for versioning

Large ISOs that can be downloaded again, NAS -> JBOD and or NAS -> offline disks.

Stuff that's critical leaves the house, stuff that would just cost me a hell of a lot of personal time to rebuild just gets a copy or two.

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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)

I use....

• Timeshift ->Local backup on to my RAID array
• borgbackup -> borgbase online backup
• GlusterFS -> experimenting with replicating certain apps across 2 raspberry pi's

Veeam community for me. Cross backup locally between my 2 servers at home, and then a copy job to an offsite NAS.

Have had to restorations before, and never had any issues.

As I have all my data on my homeserver in VMs it’s currently only daily backups to the NAS with proxmox, but I should really add some remote NAS to have it backed up in case my local NAS breaks down.

I backup an encrypted and heavily compressed archive to my local nas and to google drive every night. NAS keeps the version from the first of every month and 7 days prior history and google drive just the latest

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

I use RSnapshot and make incremental backups to an external harddrive, and (I know it's not a backup) run my two RAIDs (one for media, one for general data) in mirrored mode.

When I eventually upgrade my home server, I will upgrade from 2x2 2TB drives in RAID1 to four 8TB drives in either RAID5 or 6 - I am still undecided if I am willing to sacrifice 4TB of capacity to the redundancy gods and get an extra harddrive that can fail without data loss in return.

I don't backup my personal files since they are all more or less contained in Proton Drive. I do run a handful of small databases, which i back up to ... telegram.

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.

I run all of my services in containers, and intentionally leave my Docker host as barebones as possible so that it's disposable (I don't backup anything aside from data to do with the services themselves, the host can be launched into the sun without any backups and it wouldn't matter). I like to keep things simple yet practical, so I just run a nightly cron job that spins down all my stacks, creates archives of everything as-is at that time, and uploads them to Wasabi, AWS S3, and Backblaze B2. Then everything just spins back up, rinse and repeat the next night. I use lifecycle policies to keep the last 90 days worth of backups.

Fuck it, we ball.

I just wanted to say that I appreciate the input from everyone here. I really need to work on my backup solution and this will be helpful.

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.

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.

All my servers use ZFS for data storage, they have VPN's between each other (just /30 P2P's). I use zfs-snapshot to take snapshots every 15 minutes and nightly jobs that do a ZFS send to dump everything to another machine with some storage.