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.

TLDR: title.

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?

  • @douglasg14bEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    I might be crazy but I have a 20TB WD Red Pro in a padded, water proof, locking, case that I take a full backup on and then drive it over to a family members 30m away once a month or so.

    It’s a full encrypted backup of all my important stuff in a relatively different geographic location.

    All of my VM data backs up hourly to my NAS as well. Which then gets backed up onto the large drive monthly.

    Monthly granularity isn’t that good to be fair but it’s better than nothing. I should probably back up the more important rapidly changing stuff online daily.

      • @douglasg14bEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        Yes.

        I’m sure one can reasonably infer that I do not mean 30 meters.

        Conveniently at highway speeds 30 minutes and 30 miles away are essentially equal.

        I’ll try and use appropriate notation next time

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

          I was just joking :)

          30 minutes can vary a lot depending on traffic. If there’s traffic, it can take me 30-40 minutes to get home from work even though it’s only 11 miles away and ~15 mins with no traffic.