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Daily restic backup of OS and Data to Backblaze. Cant be happier
Have you ever had to restore from Backblaze or tested the restores to make sure they work and are being backed up correctly?
That's great!
I wrote an application from scratch which allows backup jobs to be added / scheduled with the usual incremental, full options. I wanted to use backblaze and do it as efficiently as possible as well as learn a few things on the way. The thing I realised when using a backblaze app on Linux to backup was the list charges become massive when dealing with a huge photo library, videos, millions of files etc. in total I'm backing up around 4-5tb.
The application I use stores a checksum of the file in a local mysql dB then if a rescan is necessary it's done locally. It also allows me to store encryption keys locally and not depend on backblaze encryption keys.
Given I'm storing checksums locally I can also do duplication checks and purges which is great for images.
Probably overkill and no doubt other applications exist which does the job better but this runs flawlessly and costs around £7.50 a month for my data needs
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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