I’ve been backing up to a dedicated hard disk within the same server for all my backups in case my disks fail. And as I run more and more services, the concern of disks failures grow bigger.

I’m looking for a cheapish off-site backup solution and I’m just curious what everyone does for their 3-2-1 backup solutions.

  • @HolyDriverEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    Ah yes automated backups, on my to-do which I’ll hopefully do before a failure (famous last words). People talking about backblaze b2. I just looked. Why not use the personal one? The one computer would just be the Nas if using it for cold storage/redundancy?

    • @PfifelEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      To copy a comment from reddit:

      HTWingNut:

Backblaze Personal only works with Windows PC's and Mac, and drives that are physically connected to the computer. No VM's, no network drives/hardlinks/symlinks, etc. You have to use their software to backup too. As someone else noted, for recovery you can grab files in 500GB chunks as a zip, or 8TB drive mailed to you (free of charge up to 5 per year). Data needs to be retained on your local drives otherwise it will delete them from their servers after 30 days unless you upgrade to their 1 year retention plan.

I have a Windows PC that is on 24/7 for a number of things, and I just put a hard drive in there that I backup my most important NAS files to that, and it gets backed up to Backblaze Personal.

Backblaze Personal is cheap and I see the appeal, but you have to understand and live with those caveats for "unlimited" backup.

      I use B2 with rclone and just backup “important” stuff on my NAS with cron jobs. I guess you could have rclone move the “important” stuff from NAS to a “burner” PC which uses Backblaze Personal.

      I don’t have enough data to warrant all that so I use B2 for now and I have around 50GB of data so the price is cheap

      • @HolyDriverEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Wow ok, didn’t realize it was that constrained! Sorry for late response, lemmy app on phone not sending me notifications or letting me link to replies (thought Jerboa was supposed to be good)