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?

  • BigDev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am lucky enough to have a second physical location to store a second computer, with effectively free internet access (as long as the data volume is low, under about 1TB/month.)

    I use the ZFS file system for my storage pool, so backups are as easy as a few commands in a script triggered every few hours, that takes a ZFS snapshot and tosses it to my second computer via SSH.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    Backblaze on a B2 account. 0.005$ per gb. You pay for the storage you use. You pay for when you need to download your backup.

    On my truenas server, it’s easy as pie to setup and easy as 🥧 to restore a backup when needed.

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    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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    I run linux for everything, the nice thing is everything is a file so I use rsync to backup all my configs for physical servers. I can do a clean install, run my setup script, then rsync over the config files, reboot and everyone’s happy.

    For the actual data I also rsync from my main server to others. Each server has a schedule for when they get rsynced to so I have a history of about 3 weeks.

    For virtual servers I just use the proxmox built in backup system which works great.

    Very important files get encrypted and sent to the cloud as well, but out of dozens of TB this only accounts for a few gigs.

    I’ve also never thrown out a disk or USB stick in my life and use them for archiving, even if the drive is half dead as long as it’ll accept data I shove a copy of something on it, label and document it. There’s so many copies of everything that it can all be rebuild if needed even if half these drives end up not working. I keep most of these off-site. At some point I’ll have to physically destroy the oldest ones like the few 13 GB IDE disks that just make no sense to bother with.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    I backup using a simple rsync script to a Hetzner storage box.

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    1 year ago

    cronjobs with rsync to a Synology NAS and then to Synology’s cloud backup.

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    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

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure how you understand the 3-2-1 rule given how you explained it, even though you’re stating the right stuff (I’m confused about your numbered list…) so just for reference for people reading that, it means that your backups need to be on:

      • 3 copies
      • 2 mediums
      • 1 offsite location
      • theragu40@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.

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    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.

  • Jason@lemmy.weiser.social
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    1 year ago

    Proxmox Backup Server. It’s life-changing. I back up every night and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve completely messed something up only to revert it in a matter of minutes to the nightly backup. You need a separate machine running it–something that kept me from doing it for the longest time–but it is 100% worth it.

    I back that up to Backblaze B2 (using Duplicati currently, but I’m going to switch to Kopia), but thankfully I haven’t had to use that, yet.

  • bp99@lemmy.bp99.eu
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    1 year ago

    It’s kind of broken at the moment, but I have set up duplicity to create encrypted backups to Bacblaze B2 buckets.

    Of course the proper way would be to back up to at least 2 more locations. Perhaps a local NAS for starters. Also could be configured in duplicity.