I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am kinda curious about that potentially for offsite backups in a safe deposit box or something.

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Edit: You have mentioned borg and rsync, and while borg looks good, I want to go with rsync as it seems to be more actively maintained. I would like to also have my backups encrypted, but rsync doesn’t seem to have that built in. Does anyone know what to do for encrypted backups?

  • @[email protected]
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    238 months ago

    Ideally you want to backup everything that you didn’t explicitly exclude since otherwise there is always something you forgot.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Well, I have my personal data in a specific folder, everything there is backed up.
      General media is in another one, which isn’t included.