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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?

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[-] mr47@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Proxmox backs up the VMs -> backups are uploaded to the cloud.

[-] hitagi@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago

Cronjobs and rclone have been enough for me for the past year or so. Interestingly, I've only needed to restore from a backup once after a broken update. It felt great fixing that problem so easily.

[-] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have 2 servers that backup to each other. I also use B2 for photos and important stuff.

[-] balthazar@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Almost all the services I host run in docker container (or userland systemd services). What I back up are sqlite databases containing the config or plain data. Every day, my NAS rsyncs the db from my server onto its local storage, and I have Hyper Backup backup the backups into an encrypted S3 bucket. HB keeps the last n versions, and manages their lifecycle. It's all pretty handy!

[-] Richard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My home servers a windows box so I use Backblaze which has unlimited storage for a reasonable fixed price. Have around 11TB backed up. Pay the extra few dollars for the extended 12 month retention of deleted files, which has saved me a few times when I needed to restore a file I couldn’t find.

Locally I run stablebit DrivePool and content is mirrored and pooled using that, which covers me for drive failures.

[-] zzmori@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’m backing up my stuff over to Storj DCS (basically S3 but distributed over several regions) and it’s been working like a charm for the better part of a year. Quite cheap as well, similar to Backblaze.

For me the upside was I could prepay with crypto and not use any credit card.

[-] MisterB@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I've recently begun using duplicati to backup the data from my docker containers and VMware snapshots for the guest VM itself, just currently struggling to understand how to automate the snapshots yet so I do them manually

[-] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TrueNAS zfs snapshots, and then a weekly Cron rsync to a servarica VPS with unlimited expanding storage.

[-] ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If you use a VPS as a backup target, you can also format it with ZFS and use replication. Sending snapshots is faster than using file-level backup tool, especially with a lot of small files.

[-] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I have noticed it's very slow with initial backups. So snapshot replication sends one large file? What if you want to recover individual files?

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[-] whoami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kopia to Backblaze B2 is what I generally use for off-site backups of my devices. Borg's another good option to look at, but not as friction-less in my experience. There are a couple of additional features that are available in Kopia that are nice to have and are not in Borg (i.e. error correction, file de-duplication) from what I recall. edit: borg does do de-duplication

[-] ptman@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

rsync + borg, but looking at bupstash

[-] NSA_Server_04@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Using ESXi as a hypervisor , so I rely on Veeam. I have copy jobs to take it from local to an external + a copy up to the cloud.

[-] haych@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I run everything in containers, so I rsync my entire docker directory to my NAS, which in turn backs it up to the cloud.

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] f1g4@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

A simple script using duplicity to FTP data on my private website with infinite storage. I can't say if it's good or not. It's my first time doing it.

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[-] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ZFS array using striping and parity. Daily snapshots get backed up to another machine on the network. 2 external hard drives with mirrors of the backup rotate between my home and office weekly-ish.

I can lose 2 hard drives from the array at the same time without suffering data loss. Any accidentally deleted files can be restored from a snapshot if my house is hit by a meteor I lose maximum of 3-4 days of snapshots.

[-] bladewdr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I have an rsync script that pulls a backup every night from my truenas server to my Synology.

I've been thinking about setting up something with rsync.net so I have a cloud copy of my most important files.

[-] originalucifer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

dont overthink it.. servers/workstations rsync to a nas, then sync that nas to another nas offsite.

[-] DataDreadnought@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Bash scripting and rclone personally, here is a video that helps https://youtu.be/wUXSLmGAtgQ

[-] irdc@derp.foo 1 points 1 year ago

Compressed pg_dump rsync’ed to off-site server.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Veeam backup and recovery notnfor retail license covers up to 10 workloads. I then s3 offsite to backblaze

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Zfs z2 pool . Not a perfect backup, but it covers disk failure (already lost one disk with no data loss), and accidental file deletion. I'm vulnerable to my house burning down, but overall I sleep well enough.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 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

[-] wyatt@lemmy.wyattsmith.org 1 points 1 year ago

If you are using kubernetes, you can use longhorn to provision PVCs. It offers easy S3 backup along with snapshots. It has saved me a few times.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

All my backups are in /home/Ryan/Documents. Please don't break my Minecraft server.

[-] nnullzz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Running a Duplicacy container backing up to Google drive for some stuff and Backblaze for mostly all other data. Been using it for a couple years with no issues. The GUI and scheduling is really nice too.

[-] rambos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • kopia backup to 2nd disk
  • kopia backup to B2 cloud
  • duplicaty backup to google drive (only most important folder <1GB)

Most of the files are actually nextcloud so I get one more copy of files (not backup) on PC by syncing with nextcloud app

[-] Pika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use Bacula to an external drive, it was a pain in the ass to configure but once it's running its super reliable and easily extended to other drives or folders

[-] Lasthiin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not what you mean but I use BDR shadow protect and Datto. Depending on customers budget.

[-] Sarazil@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For my webserver, mysqldump to a secured folder, then restic backup the whole /svr folder, then rsync the restic backup to another server. Also have a system that emails me if these things don't happen daily. The log files are uploaded to a url, the log file is checked for simple errors, and if no file is uploaded in time, email.

Of course, in my case, the url files are uploaded to - and the email server... are the same server I'm backing up... but at least if that becomes a problem, I probably only need the backups I've already made to my second server.

[-] shrugal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.

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