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I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?

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[-] Qu4ndo@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago

Borgbase with Borgmatic (Borg) as the Software. As far as I know the whole Borgbase Service is from a Homelab guy (with our needs in mind).

Also 3-2-1 rule!

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[-] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Regardless of service, if you don't test your backups, you have none.

[-] witten@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ehhh I would say then you have probabilistic backups. There's some percent chance they're okay, and some percent chance they're useless. (And maybe some percent chance they're in between those extremes.) With the odds probably not in your favor. πŸ˜„

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] pacjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not so much about testing, but one time I really needed to get to my backups I lost password to the repository (I'm using restic). Luckily a copy of it was stored in bitwarden, but until I remembered it, were perhaps one of the worst moments.

Needless to say, please test backups and store secrets in more then one place.

[-] kennyboy55@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

I have an unraid server which hosts an docker image of Duplicacy. It is paid though for the web interface. And it backs up to Backblaze B2. I have roughly 175GB backed up, for which I pay $0.87 a month.

[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is almost my exact backup workflow, with another location in between. Duplicacy is great, highly recommend.

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[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 8 points 1 year ago

rsync.net is great if you need something simple and cheap. Backblaze B2 is also decent, but does have the typical download and API usage cost.

[-] Crazeeeyez@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I had never heard of rsync.net until now. I like the idea but it seems more expensive than B2. $15/TB vs $5/TB. Am I doing the math wrong or reading it wrong?

[-] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I've never heard of it either, but I came to the same conclusion as you

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[-] mikazuki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When I researched what to use for my backup I found rsync.net. They have some nice features nobody else seems to support, like they support ZFS send/receive https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

But in the end the price made me go with borgbase.com

[-] johntash@eviltoast.org 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see it on their website right now, but they offer a discount if you're using something like restic/borg and only need scp/sftp access. Their support is also super friendly. I've had an account forever and got moved to the 100+ TB pricing even though I have < 50TB stored. YMMV but it doesn't hurt to ask if they have any additional discounts.

Also keep in mind that B2 charges for bandwidth too. It's $5/TB for storage, but $10/TB to download that same data.

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[-] spez_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Restic + Resticprofile to back up everything and store it on my local HDD.

Then, I use Rclone to sync the local repository to Backblaze B2.

Here's my general setup:

/.config/restic/
β”œβ”€β”€ logs
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ statuses
β”‚   β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ restic-status-20230202T020202.json
β”‚   β”‚   └── restic-status-20230101T010101.json
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ restic-check-20230202T020202.log
β”‚   └── restic-backup-20230101T010101.log
β”œβ”€β”€ config
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ profiles.yaml
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ excludes.txt
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ rclone.conf
β”‚   └── password.txt
β”œβ”€β”€ bin
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ restic_0.15.2_linux_arm64
β”‚   β”œβ”€β”€ rclone_1.63.1_linux_arm64
β”‚   └── resticprofile_0.22.0_linux_arm64
version: "1"

# Schedules (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html#Calendar%20Events)
{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_BACKUP := "*-*-* 22:00:00" }}       # Daily at 10PM
{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_CHECK := "Sat *-*-* 04:00:00" }}    # Weekly at 4AM on Saturday
{{ $SCHEDULE_SYNC_BACKUP := "Sun *-*-* 21:30:00" }}     # Weekly at 11.30PM on Sunday
{{ $SCHEDULE_POSTGRES_BACKUP := "Fri *-*-* 20:00:00" }} # Weekly at 8PM on Friday

# Directories
{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BINARY := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/bin/restic_0.15.2_linux_arm64" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO := "/home/deck/Desktop/restic-repo" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/logs" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_STATUS := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/logs/statuses" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/BLOCKED" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/bin/rclone_1.63.1_linux_arm64" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_REPO := "bucket:restic-backup-12345" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/config/rclone.conf" }}
{{ $LOCATION_RESTICPROFILE_LOCK := "/tmp/resticprofile-default.lock" }}
{{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP := "/home/deck/Desktop/dumps" }}
{{ $LOCATION_PRIMARY_BACKUP_SOURCE := "/home/deck/Desktop/" }}

# Configs
{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME := .Now.Format "20060102T150405" }}
{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_PASSWORD := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/config/password.txt" }}
{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/excludes.txt" }}

global:
  default-command: snapshots                      # Run 'snapshots' when no command is specified
  initialize: false                               # Do not initialize a repository if none exists
  priority: low                                   # Use priority class on Windows and "nice" on Unixes
  min-memory: 100                                 # Minimum required RAM for Resticprofile to start
  restic-lock-retry-after: 5m                     # Retry failed restic command acquisition every 5 minutes
  restic-stale-lock-age: 10h                      # Unlock stale lock if age exceeds 10 hours
  restic-binary: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BINARY }}'  # Location of the Restic binary

default:
  lock: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTICPROFILE_LOCK }}'      # Local lockfile to prevent concurrent profile runs
  force-inactive-lock: true                       # Detect and remove stale locks
  initialize: true                                # Initialize repository if it doesn't exist
  repository: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }}'       # Path to Restic repository
  password-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_PASSWORD }}'  # File containing repository password
  status-file: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_STATUS }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-status.json'  # Output status file
  compression: 'max'                              # Maximum compression level
  run-after-fail:                                 # Block syncing if there was a failure. TODO: Add an email
    - 'echo "The command ${PROFILE_COMMAND} has failed in ${PROFILE_NAME}. Please check the logs." > {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE }}'

  backup:
    run-before:                                   # Bring down Docker before backup
      - 'systemctl stop docker.socket'
      - 'systemctl stop docker'
    run-finally:
      - 'grep --invert-match -E "^unchanged|\(0 B added, 0 B stored\)|\(0 B added\)" {{ tempFile "backup.log" }} > {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-backup.log'  # Copy log file, stripping out any unchanced files
      - 'systemctl start docker'                  # Bring Docker back online after backup
    one-file-system: false                        # Exclude other file systems
    no-error-on-warning: true                     # Don't consider warnings as backup failures
    source:                                       # Directories to back up
      - '{{ $LOCATION_PRIMARY_BACKUP_SOURCE }}'
    exclude-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE }}'  # File containing exclude patterns
    exclude-caches: true                          # Exclude cache files
    schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_BACKUP }}'     # Backup schedule
    schedule-permission: system                   # Schedule permission
    schedule-lock-wait: 10m                       # Wait time for the lock during schedule
    schedule-log: '{{ tempFile "backup.log" }}'   # Log file to /tmp. This contains all information, including unchanged files which we do not care about
    verbose: 2                                    # Log details about processed files

  check:
    schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_CHECK }}'      # Verification schedule
    schedule-permission: system                   # Schedule permission
    schedule-lock-wait: 10m                       # Wait time for the lock during schedule
    schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-check.log'  # Log file
    read-data: true                               # Verify data during check

  prune:
    dry-run: true                                 # Only prune if safe to do so, change manually
    repack-uncompressed: true                     # Repack all uncompressed data

  forget:
    dry-run: true                                 # Only forget if safe to do so, change manually

  rewrite:
    dry-run: true                                 # Only rewrite if safe to do so, change manually
    forget: true                                  # Remove original snapshots after creating new ones
    exclude-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE }}'  # File containing exclude patterns

  mount:
    allow-other: true                             # Allow other users to access the mount point

  rebuild-index:
    read-all-packs: true                          # Read all pack files to generate new index from scratch

# The following shell profiles are simply to run other shell scripts at a scheduled time
# We do not actually run the primary Restic commands listed, as we exit the process early

shell-postgres:                                   # Profile to run shell scripts only. We exit the current process before Restic can run.
  backup:
    schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_POSTGRES_BACKUP }}'   # Postgres backup schedule
    schedule-permission: system                   # Schedule permission
    schedule-lock-mode: ignore                    # Ignore locks, if any
    schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-postgres-backup.log'  # Log file
    dry-run: true                                 # Don't write data
    run-before:                                   # Dump postgres databases
      - 'chmod 777 /var/run/docker.sock'
      - 'docker exec -t immich-postgres pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > "{{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/immich-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz" && echo "Dumped Immich database: {{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/immich-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz"'
      - 'docker exec -t joplin-postgres pg_dumpall -c -U joplin | gzip > "{{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/joplin-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz" && echo "Dumped Joplin database: {{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/joplin-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz"'
      - 'kill $$'

shell-sync:
  backup:
    schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_SYNC_BACKUP }}'       # Sync backup schedule
    schedule-permission: system                   # Schedule permission
    schedule-lock-mode: ignore                    # Ignore locks, if any
    schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-rsync-backup.log'  # Log file
    dry-run: true                                 # Don't write data
    run-before:                                   # Sync the Restic repo, after checking if the repository is in good health
      - 'if [ -f "{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE }}" ]; then echo "There has been a problem with the Restic repository, please check the logs. If everything is okay, delete the BLOCKED file." && kill $$; fi'
      - '{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY }} -v sync {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }} {{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_REPO }} --config={{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG }} --b2-hard-delete'
      - '{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY }} cleanup {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }} --config={{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG }}'
      - 'kill $$'

Resticprofile doesn't let me run other shell commands on a schedule, and because I wanted everything in a single configuration, I just created two new profiles which call the backup command. I then made the shell commands run before Restic, and then finally killed the instance before it got to actually run, which effectively does what I needed.

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[-] gobbling871@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Backblaze b2, borgbase.com. There are also programs like dejadup that will let you backup to popular cloud drives. The alternatives are limitless.

[-] wibo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I use restic to backup my raspberry Pi's to my Synology NAS and backup my NAS to backblaze.

[-] Chadsmo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Restic or Kopia, both to Backblaze.

[-] loganb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I second restic. Have been using it for a year now and have been generally very happy. Actually had to use it in a couple occasions to restore directory content and even recover a complete workstation drive. I have had relatively easy success in both scenarios.

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

I've always found them pretty similar. How'd you chose one or another?

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I know Restic before Kopia and made a set of systemd units to run Restic backups on my home server and office workstation (both online 24/7).

Kopia seems much nicer for a regular user, so I use it on my and family laptops. I used to use Duplicati there, but that project seems dead.

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[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

External HDD in my wifi network. It runs Samba. I can just drag and drop folders and it transfers over wifi.

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[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

As dumb/simple/boring as this may be...? An external hard drive.

....

....what? It doesn't require you to be online 24/7, works at any(tm) PC, and the speed is really great -- even on a potato.

Unless you work at NASA or at IBM or similars -- then feel free to call me dum.

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

While I agree with you, hard drives do have a shelf life. How many years seems to be up for debate but it does exist. If you don’t have multiple drives that are of different ages you may be in a world of hurt one day.

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why? If you check the drive once a month, and it fails once per 10 years on average, the time when both the back up drive and the main drive fail simultaneously is on average 2340 years. Of couse they are much more likely to fail if they're old but the odds are very small.

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[-] kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Backblaze B2 for automatic syncing of all the little files

Glacier for long term archiving of old big files that never change

[-] Quart@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I use SyncThing to backup our cell phones to my on-prem server, and then use BackBlaze Personal Backup for a cloud copy.

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
  • restic > backblaze b2, nightly & automatic
  • restic > normally unplugged drive, every couple weeks (manual, recurring reminder)
[-] jrest18n@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Veeam backup and replication at home and at work. At home a copy goes to a NAS, another copy goes to backblaze b2 currently.

[-] Pechente@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Backups and archived files go to my home server which then backups to backblaze b2.

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[-] vd1n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Tears... Natural, salty, wet tears...

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used to have everything backed up to a 2TB USB drive. Which I accidentally dropped down the stairs. I lost thousands of family photos and documents. That changed my backup perspective.

I now have a Synology NAS, with 12TB in a RAID5 array (for a bit of disk redundancy). All my home devices, Proxmox servers etc back up here. The NAS also holds a few TB of media. Attached to it I have a USB hard drive (also 12TB). The NAS gets fully backed up to the USB drive nightly.

I also have a remote Raspberry Pi with a smaller USB drive (4TB) attached to it at my brother's house (in another country), where I backup most of the contents of my home NAS. I don't back up the media, just the important stuff. I might have to upgrade to a larger drive...

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 13 points 1 year ago

I used to have everything backed up to a 2TB USB drive. Which I accidentally dropped down the stairs. I lost thousands of family photos and documents. That changed my backup perspective.

If it's the only copy, it's not a backup. It's the master.

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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

rsync.net and learn to use Borg; they're stupid cheap if you're technically proficient enough to handle the Borg setup yourself. Like, charge by the gigabyte, but it's 1.5Β’/GB at the most expensive, and cheaper in bulk

[-] hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I use Duplicati connected to Storj with data volumes that incrementally get backed up once per month. My files don't change very often, so monthly is a good balance. Not counting my Jellyfin library, those backups are around 1 TB. With the Jellyfin library, almost 15 TB.

Earlier this year, I recovered from a 100% data loss scenario, as I didn't (and still don't) have space for physical backups. I have a 25 TB allowance, so my actual cost was €0. If I had to pay, it would have been under €1.

[-] alligatorSoup@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Do you mean 25TB as the storj site says 25gb? Did some promotion give you that much free?

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[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

borg with an external hard drive and borgbase as a remote. I use the 2-2-1 rule (πŸ™ˆ), as I struggle to find a good way to do another backup and RAID does not count 😬

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[-] morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de 2 points 1 year ago

I do once a day rsync my data to another drive. I can restore a file, if I accidentaly deleted it. Important stuff goes encrypted via rclone additionaly to a hetzner storagebox.

[-] youRFate@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use wasabi s3, I back up to that using restic.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I use OneDrive. Buy the Costco subscription and get like 15 months for around 110 CAD. GIVES 6 TB. I create some fake accountsink the sharing to my main account. I have an encrypted rxlone share for some things and others I GPG encryot the tar before sending it up. Been working fine for a couple years and I have multiple TB backed up.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Git Annex.

Took me a while to wrap my head around it, but nothing comes close to it once you set it up.

Edit: should have read the post more carefully, I use Git Annex both locally and on a VPS I rent from openbsd.amsterdam for off-site backups.

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

Duplicati, to a friend's home server who lives in another town.

[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I hate to ask the scary question, but have you tried to restore your backups before? I used Duplicati and discovered that none of my backups were usable and ended up switching to Duplicacy.

[-] Lemmox@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

+1 for Duplicacy. It just works, truly does. Duplicati on the other hand seems to work, but has a tendency to fail on restore, just as you described.

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

An important question though.

I have, when I first set it up, and again once when I needed to.

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

It works just fine for me, but I've heared scary storries so now Im using:

  1. Kopia to backblaze b2 (all data)
  2. Kopia to local disk (all data)
  3. Duplicati to google drive (only 1 folder)
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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To back up my Synology: My first level is an old Synology, the second is Amazon Glacier.

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