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?

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Backblaze on a B2 account. 0.005$ per gb. You pay for the storage you use. You pay for when you need to download your backup.

    On my truenas server, it’s easy as pie to setup and easy as 🥧 to restore a backup when needed.

    • andrew
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      1 year ago

      I’ll add to this that restic works amazingly with Backblaze. Plus a dozen or so other backup options.

    • WxFisch
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      51 year ago

      I also recommend B2, it’s an S3 compatible service so any backup software/scripts/plugins that work with S3 should work with Backblaze.

    • Anony Moose
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      41 year ago

      B2 is awesome. I have Duplicati set up on OpenMediaVault to backup my OS nightly to B2 (as well as a local copy to the HDD).

    • KairuByte
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      21 year ago

      If your data is replaceable, there’s not much point unless it’s a long wait or high cost to get it back. It’s why I don’t have many backups.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      In the 20 years that I’ve been running a home server I’ve never had anything more than a failed disk in the array which didn’t cause any data loss.

      I do have backups since it’s a good practice and also because it familiarizes me with the software and processes as they change and update so my skillset is always fresh for work purposes.

  • @writ
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    141 year ago

    Borgbackup

  • @JubilantJaguar
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    111 year ago

    ITT: lots of the usual paranoid overkill. If you do rsync with the --backup switch to a remote box or a VPS, that will cover all bases in the real world. The probability of losing anything is close to 0.

    The more serious risk is discovering that something broke 3 weeks ago and the backups were not happening. So you need to make sure you are getting some kind of notification when the script completes successfully.

    • @[email protected]
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      While I don’t agree that using something like restic is overkill you are very right that backup process monitoring is very overlooked. And recovering with the backup system of your choice is too.

      I let my jenkins run the backup jobs as I have it running anyways for development tasks. When a job fails it notifies me immediately via email and I can also manually check in the web ui how the backup went.

  • @satanmat
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    91 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

    • z3bra
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      81 year ago

      I’m not sure how you understand the 3-2-1 rule given how you explained it, even though you’re stating the right stuff (I’m confused about your numbered list…) so just for reference for people reading that, it means that your backups need to be on:

      • 3 copies
      • 2 mediums
      • 1 offsite location
      • @theragu40
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        11 year ago

        Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.

  • cnk
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    81 year ago

    cronjobs with rsync to a Synology NAS and then to Synology’s cloud backup.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Same setup here. I’ve got a really basic script running nightly from cron. B2 is cheap as, and having an encrypted backup that’s versioned is great for piece of mind.

      At one point I was away from home and my (little rpi) server wasn’t accessible, but with the restic repo up on B2 I was able to easily find a file I urgently needed remotely. It’s awesome.

  • Jason
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    71 year ago

    Proxmox Backup Server. It’s life-changing. I back up every night and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve completely messed something up only to revert it in a matter of minutes to the nightly backup. You need a separate machine running it–something that kept me from doing it for the longest time–but it is 100% worth it.

    I back that up to Backblaze B2 (using Duplicati currently, but I’m going to switch to Kopia), but thankfully I haven’t had to use that, yet.

    • @dustojnikhummer
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      21 year ago

      PBS backs up the host as well, right? Shame Veeam won’t add Proxmox support. I really only backup my VMs and some basic configs

      • @DemonSlayerB
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        21 year ago

        Veeam has been pretty good for my HyperV VMs, but I do wish I could find something a bit better. I’ve been hearing a lot about Proxmox lately. I wonder if it’s worth switching to. I’m a MS guy myself so I just used what I know.

        • @dustojnikhummer
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          11 year ago

          Veeam can’t backup Proxmox on hypervisor level, only HyperV and VMWare

      • Jason
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        PBS only backs up the VMs and containers, not the host. That being said, the Proxmox host is super-easy to install and the VMs and containers all carry over, even if you, for example, botch an upgrade (ask me how I know…)

        • @dustojnikhummer
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          21 year ago

          Then what’s the purpose over just setting up the built in snapshot backup tool, that unlike PBS can natively back up onto an SMB network share?

          • Jason
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            11 year ago

            I’m not super familiar with how snapshots work, but that seems like a good solution. As I remember, what pushed me to PBS was the ability to make incremental backups to keep them from eating up storage space, which I’m not sure is possible with just the snapshots in Proxmox. I could be wrong, though.

            • @dustojnikhummer
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              11 year ago

              You are right about the snapshots yeah. The built in backup doesn’t seem to do incremental backups.

  • BigDev
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    61 year ago

    I am lucky enough to have a second physical location to store a second computer, with effectively free internet access (as long as the data volume is low, under about 1TB/month.)

    I use the ZFS file system for my storage pool, so backups are as easy as a few commands in a script triggered every few hours, that takes a ZFS snapshot and tosses it to my second computer via SSH.

  • mariom
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    61 year ago

    Autorestic, nice wrapper for restic.

    Data goes from one server to second server, and vice versa (different provider, different geolocation). And to backblaze B2 - as far as I know cheapest s3-like storage

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Wasabi might also be worth mentioning, a while back I compared S3-compatible storage providers and found them to be cheaper for volumes >1TB. They now seem to be slightly more expensive (5.99$ vs. 5$), but they don’t charge for download traffic.

      • mariom
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        11 year ago

        If you have that amount of data, I see that their “pay as you go” always charge for at least 1TB.

        B2 for 2 servers and laptop costs me less than $2. Download fee shouldn’t be a problem - if you are not restoring everything everyday. But good to know the alternative.

  • @[email protected]
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    Borgbackup, using borgmatic as a frontend, to a storage VPS. I backup dozens of machines this way. I simply add a user account for each machine on the VPS, then each machine backs up over ssh to its own account.