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.

  • @easeKItMAnEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Can relate to the approach. Keeping host barebones and everything dockerized + data volumes hosted separately will ease maintanance. For rapid redeployment a custom script will set up firewall/fail2ban/SSH/smartCTL/crontab/docker/docker-compose and finally load from another instance backups of all docker images. Complete setup from scratch takes 10-15 minutes. Tried Ansible but ended up custom scripting.

    All my data is stored offsite twice a year. Data from high value is stored on a SSD as data volume and 2 other SSD’s as encrypted TAR + AWS S3. Rotation daily/weekly.