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submitted 1 year ago by kat@feddit.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Bright5park@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] skimdankish2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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
[-] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I back up my home folder to an encrypted drive once a week using rsync, then I create a tarball, encrypt it, and upload it to protondrive just in case.

[-] Amius@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

Holy crap. Duplicity is what I've been missing my entire life. Thank you for this.

[-] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 3 points 1 year ago

My critical files and folders are synced from my mas to my desktop using syncthing. From there I use backblaze to do a full desktop backup nightly.

My Nas is in raid 5, but that's technically not a backup.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud with folder sync for both mobile and PC, backs up everything I need.

[-] Totendax@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] minimar@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

I just use duplicity and upload to Google drive.

[-] Oli@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] jon@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago

Got a Veeam community instance running on each of my VMware nodes, backing up 9-10 VMs each.

Using Cloudberry for my desktop, laptop and a couple Windows VMs.

Borg for non-VMware Linux servers/VMs, including my WSL instances, game/AI baremetal rig, and some Proxmox VMs I've got hosted with a friend.

Each backup agent dumps its backups into a share on my nas, which then has a cron task to do weekly uploads to GDrive. I also manually do a monthly copy to an HDD and store it off-site with a friend.

[-] ipipip@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, yes, the ole' "backup a database to telegram" trick. Who hasn't used that one?!?

[-] trashographer@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

I did. Split pgp tarball into 2gb files and download 600gb to saved messages

[-] FederalAlienSmuggler@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

It's just a matter of time when Telegram will crack down on this and limit the amount of cloud Storage used. But until then, I'll happily use Telegram as a fourth backup

[-] vivia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

For my server I use duplicity, with a daily incremental backup and sending the encrypted diffs away. I researched a few more options some time ago but nothing really fit my use case, but I'm also not super happy with duplicity. Thanks for suggesting borgbackup.

For my personal data I have a NextCloud on a RPi4 at my parents' place, which also syncs between my laptop that I've left there. For an offline and off-site storage, I use the good old strategy where I bring over an external hard drive, rsync it, and bring it back.

[-] tyfi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel the exact same. I've been using Duplicacy for a couple years, it works, but don't totally love it.

When I researched Borg, Restic, others, there were issues holding me back for each. Many are CLI-driven, which I don't mind for most tools. But when shit hits the fan and I need to restore, I really want to have a UI to make it simple (and easily browse file directories).

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[-] leopardboy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On my home network, devices are backed up using Time Machine over the network. I also use Backblaze to make a second backup of data to their cloud service, using my own private key. Lastly, I throw some backups on a USB drive that I keep in a fire safe.

[-] TheCakeWasNoLie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rsync script that does deltas per day using hardlinks. Found on the Arch wiki. Works like a charm.

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[-] xionzui@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use backupninja for the scheduling and management of all the processes. The actual backups are done by rsync, rdiff, borg, and the b2 tool from backblaze depending on the type and destination of the data. I back up everything to a second internal drive, an external drive, and a backblaze bucket for the most critical stuff. Backupninja manages multiple snapshots within the borg repository, and rdiff lets me only copy new data for the large directories.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

btrfs and btrbk work very well, tutorial: https://mutschler.dev/linux/fedora-btrfs-35/

[-] craftymansamcf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For smaller backups <10GB ea. I run a 3 phased approach

  • rsync to a local folder /src/backup/
  • rsync that to a remote nas
  • rclone that to a b2 bucket

These scripts run on the cron service and I log this info out to a file using --log-file option for rsync/rclone so I can do spot checks of the results

This way I have access to the data locally if the network is down, remotely on a different networked machine for any other device that can browse it, and finally an offsite cloud backup.

Doing this setup manually through rsync/rclone has been important to get the domain knowledge to think about the overall process; scheduling multiple backups at different times overnight to not overload the drive and network, ensuring versioning is stored for files that might require it and ensuring I am not using too many api calls for B2.

For large media backups >200GB I only use the rclone script and set it to run for 3hrs every night after all the more important backups are finished. Its not important I get it done asap but a steady drip of any changes up to b2 matters more.

My next steps is to maybe figure out a process to email the backup logs every so often or look into a full application to take over with better error catching capabilities.

[-] cwiggs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My important data is backed up via Synology DSM Hyper backup to:

  • Local external HDD attached via USB.
  • Remote to backblaze (costs about $1/month for ~100gb of data)

I also have proxmox backup server backup all the VM/CTs every few hours to the same external HDD used above, however these backups aren't crucial, it would just be helpful to rebuild if something went down.

[-] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] kabouterke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In short: crontab, rsync, a local and a remote raspberry pi and cryptfs on usb-sticks.

[-] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] thegpfury@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] sascamooch@lemmy.sascamooch.com 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, we ball.

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