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I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

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

rsync + borg, but looking at bupstash

[-] whoami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kopia to Backblaze B2 is what I generally use for off-site backups of my devices. Borg's another good option to look at, but not as friction-less in my experience. There are a couple of additional features that are available in Kopia that are nice to have and are not in Borg (i.e. error correction, file de-duplication) from what I recall. edit: borg does do de-duplication

[-] NSA_Server_04@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Using ESXi as a hypervisor , so I rely on Veeam. I have copy jobs to take it from local to an external + a copy up to the cloud.

[-] haych@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I run everything in containers, so I rsync my entire docker directory to my NAS, which in turn backs it up to the cloud.

[-] Riktastic@laguna.chat 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use duplicacy to backup to my local NAS and to Storj.io. In case of a fire I'm always able to restore my files. Storj.io is cheap, easy to access from any location and your files are stored and duplicated on multiple different locations.

I have used duplicity before but restoring from a new installation takes a while, as duplicity has to reanalyze the storage.

[-] droolio@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

+1 for Duplicacy. Been using it solidly for nearly 6 years - with local storage, sftp, and cloud. Rclone for chonky media. Veeam Agent for local PC backups as a secondary method.

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

I use Bacula to an external drive, it was a pain in the ass to configure but once it's running its super reliable and easily extended to other drives or folders

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] f1g4@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

A simple script using duplicity to FTP data on my private website with infinite storage. I can't say if it's good or not. It's my first time doing it.

[-] stormcynk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you have infinite storage? Gsuite?

[-] f1g4@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I confirm that in the terms and condition they discourage the use as a private cloud backup and only to host stuff related to the website. Now.. until now I've had no complaints as I've been paying and kept the traffic at minimum. I guess I'll have to switch to some more cloud oriented version if I keep expanding. But it's worked for now !

[-] mr47@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Proxmox backs up the VMs -> backups are uploaded to the cloud.

[-] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

Cronjobs and rclone have been enough for me for the past year or so. Interestingly, I've only needed to restore from a backup once after a broken update. It felt great fixing that problem so easily.

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

I have 2 servers that backup to each other. I also use B2 for photos and important stuff.

[-] Richard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My home servers a windows box so I use Backblaze which has unlimited storage for a reasonable fixed price. Have around 11TB backed up. Pay the extra few dollars for the extended 12 month retention of deleted files, which has saved me a few times when I needed to restore a file I couldn’t find.

Locally I run stablebit DrivePool and content is mirrored and pooled using that, which covers me for drive failures.

[-] MisterB@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I've recently begun using duplicati to backup the data from my docker containers and VMware snapshots for the guest VM itself, just currently struggling to understand how to automate the snapshots yet so I do them manually

[-] zzmori@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’m backing up my stuff over to Storj DCS (basically S3 but distributed over several regions) and it’s been working like a charm for the better part of a year. Quite cheap as well, similar to Backblaze.

For me the upside was I could prepay with crypto and not use any credit card.

[-] DataDreadnought@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Bash scripting and rclone personally, here is a video that helps https://youtu.be/wUXSLmGAtgQ

[-] irdc@derp.foo 1 points 1 year ago

Compressed pg_dump rsync’ed to off-site server.

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

https://somedaysoon.xyz/posts/tech/backups/

But tl;dr of that:

  • OS backed up with timeshift
  • Data backed up with both snapraid on the data drive pool and then also borg to other drives+devices+locations
[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Veeam backup and recovery notnfor retail license covers up to 10 workloads. I then s3 offsite to backblaze

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Zfs z2 pool . Not a perfect backup, but it covers disk failure (already lost one disk with no data loss), and accidental file deletion. I'm vulnerable to my house burning down, but overall I sleep well enough.

[-] originalucifer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

dont overthink it.. servers/workstations rsync to a nas, then sync that nas to another nas offsite.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

3-2-1

Three copies. The data on your server.

  1. Buy a giant external drive and back up to that.

  2. Off site. Backblaze is very nice

How to get your data around? Free file sync is nice.

Veeeam community version may help you too

[-] wyatt@lemmy.wyattsmith.org 1 points 1 year ago

If you are using kubernetes, you can use longhorn to provision PVCs. It offers easy S3 backup along with snapshots. It has saved me a few times.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

All my backups are in /home/Ryan/Documents. Please don't break my Minecraft server.

[-] nnullzz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Running a Duplicacy container backing up to Google drive for some stuff and Backblaze for mostly all other data. Been using it for a couple years with no issues. The GUI and scheduling is really nice too.

[-] rambos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • kopia backup to 2nd disk
  • kopia backup to B2 cloud
  • duplicaty backup to google drive (only most important folder <1GB)

Most of the files are actually nextcloud so I get one more copy of files (not backup) on PC by syncing with nextcloud app

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

Not what you mean but I use BDR shadow protect and Datto. Depending on customers budget.

[-] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 1 points 1 year ago

btrfs send/receive to my NAS.

[-] Sarazil@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For my webserver, mysqldump to a secured folder, then restic backup the whole /svr folder, then rsync the restic backup to another server. Also have a system that emails me if these things don't happen daily. The log files are uploaded to a url, the log file is checked for simple errors, and if no file is uploaded in time, email.

Of course, in my case, the url files are uploaded to - and the email server... are the same server I'm backing up... but at least if that becomes a problem, I probably only need the backups I've already made to my second server.

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

My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.

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