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.

  • @KitchenNo2246English
    11•1 year ago

    I use borgbackup + zabbix for monitoring.

    At home, I have all my files get backed up to rsync.net since the price is lower for borg repos.

    At work, I have a dedicated backup server running borgbackup that pulls backups from my servers and stores it locally as well as uploading to rsync.net. The local backup means restoring is faster, unless of course that dies.

    • gabe565English
      4•1 year ago

      +1 for Borg! I use Borgmatic to backup files and databases to BorgBase. It costs me $80/yr for 1TB of backups which I think is sensible. I also selfhost an instance of Healthchecks.io for monitoring.

  • davadEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Restic using resticprofile for scheduling and configuring it. I do frequent backups to my NAS and have a second schedule that pushes to Backblaze B2.

  • @sambalEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    I use rclone to encrypt and send my most valuable data to OneDrive.

    • rhys the great
      2•1 year ago

      @sambal @kat I do the same with AWS Glacier. Rclone’s crypt module is magic.

      I’d prefer to not use Amazon or any of the other tech giants but nowhere else has a comparable or comparably priced equivalent to Glacier.

      • @sambal
        2•1 year ago

        undefined> AWS Glacier

        Going with S3 Glacier is probably the cheaper choice but 1TB for €8 with included access to the Office suite is an okay deal for me.

  • idunnololzEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Are cyanide tablets a backup strategy?

  • @OutrageousUmpireEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I realized at one point that the amount of data that is truly irreplaceable to me amounts to only - 500GB. So for this important data I back up to my NAS, then from there backup to Backblaze. I also create M-Discs. Two sets, one for home and one I keep at a fiends’ place. Then because “why not” and I already had them sitting around I also backup to two sd cards and keep them on site and off site.

    I also backup my other data like tv/movies/music/etc but the sheer volume of data gives me one option, that being a couple usb hard drives I back up to from my NAS.

    • @lupecEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      It’s still a WIP but that’s pretty much where I’m at as well, was going crazy trying to figure out which multi terabyte service I was going to use when in reality the actually irreplaceable stuff falls well under a single TB of data lol. Might go with Backblaze as well.

  • @huojtkegEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    3 2 1 with Restic and B2

  • ElbullazulEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I run a restic backup to a local backup server that syncs most of the data (except the movie collection because it’s too big). I also keep compressed config/db backups on the live server.

    I eventually want to add a cloud platform to the mix, but for now this setup works fine

  • Bdking158
    5•1 year ago

    Can anyone ELI5 or link a decent reference? I’m pretty new to self hosting and now that I’ve finally got most of my services running the way I want, I live in constant fear of my system crashing

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    I usually write my own scripts with rsync for backups since I already have my OS installs pretty much automated also with scripts.

  • savoyEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Highly recommend borgbackup, I’ve been using it for years and it’s always been smooth

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    I just wanted to say that I appreciate the input from everyone here. I really need to work on my backup solution and this will be helpful.