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.
Backups? What backups?
Ik it’s bad but I can’t be bothered.
wing and a pray baby!
Exactly! I pray every morning.
Dis me
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.
+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.
moved from borg to restic. hourly backup of 6Tb mailserver is just fine
Cross my fingers 🤞
I use rclone to encrypt and send my most valuable data to OneDrive.
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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.
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.
Another +1 for restic. To simplify the backup I am however using https://autorestic.vercel.app/, which is triggered from systemd timers for automated backups.
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.
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
Restic is great! I run it in a container using
mazzolino/resticimage hooked up to Backblaze for all my important stuff!how much are you paying for backblaze? Cost is one of the reasons why I don’t do cloud backups
It’s actually a bit more than I thought, $2.2 USD / mo for (currently) 469.2 GB
3 2 1 with Restic and B2
Restic is so awesome and in combination with backblaze it’s probably the most cost effective solution.
Aha yeah, basically the same as me, B2 is cheap as, I get a bill for less than a dollar each month. 👍
What’s my what lmao?
I’m paying Google for their enterprise gSuite which is still “unlimited”, and using rclone’s encrypted drive target to back up everything. Have a couple of scripts that make tarballs of each service’s files, and do a full backup daily.
It’s probably excessive, but nobody was ever mad about the fact they had too many backups if they needed them, so whatever.
A kind of “extended” 3-2-1, more a 4-3-2. As nearly everything I host runs on Docker, I usually pause the stack, .tar.bz everything and back that up on several devices (NAS, off-site machine, external HDD).
The neat thing about keeping every database in its own container is the resulting backup “package”, which can easily be restored as a whole without having to mess with db dumps, permissions, etc.
321 strategy: 3 copies of everything important, 2 on-site, 1 in cloud. I have a TrueNAS Scale NAS running RAID5 on ZFS. All the laptops, desktops, etc. backup to the NAS. (Mostly Macs, so we use time machine over the network). So the original laptop/desktop is 1 copy. The NAS is a second copy on-site, and then TrueNAS has lots of cloud options. I use Amazon S3 myself, but there are lots of choices.
Prior to this I had a Synology NAS. It was “small” (6TB), so it has a RAID mirror of 6TB drives and a single 6TB external USB that had a backup of the mirrored pair (second copy on-site). Then I also used Synology’s software to backup to S3.
For my Internet-facing VMs, they all run in xcp-ng and I use Xen Orchestra to manage them. I run regular snapshots nightly, and then use NFS to copy them to a cloud server. That’s sloppy, and sometimes doesn’t work. So the in-the-house stuff is backed up well. The VMs are mostly relying on Xen snapshots and RAID 5.
I back up everything to my home server… then I run out of money and cross my fingers that it doesn’t fail.
Honestly though my important data is backed up on a couple of places, including a cloud service. 90% of my data is replaceable, so the 10% is easy to keep safe.
i backup locally to a second NAS (daily)
i use rclone crypt to backup to the cloud (hetzner storage box, weekly)
the most important stuff i also backup to an external harddisk (from time to time, whenever i’m in the mood / have some spare time)
You basically described my backup strategy, although I do the Hetzner box daily too (on 1gbit synchronous fiber, so why not)
if i had a better upload connection than my current 10MBit i would also do it daily :D
For PCs, Daily incremental backups to local storage, daily syncs to my main unRAID server, and weekly off-site copies to a raspberry pi with a large external HDD running at a family member’s place. The unRAID server itself has it’s config backed up to the unRAID servers and all the local docker stores also to the off-site pi. The most important stuff (pictures, recovery phrases, etc) is further backed up in Google drive.
