Had my first need to do a backup last night for my self-hosted VPS. It was a bit sad I had to, but I was glad it was there. Now I’m trying to figure out how to do it for my microPC-turned-mini-server.
Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome!
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m going to say this now before anything happens: backup, backup, and backup. Make multiple copies, store them different places. Please dear god backup your data, because no one else will.
other_cat@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I run proxmox on my server, VMs within that. It has an excellent backup service built in (not the proxmox backup server that’s separate) that you can set a schedule for and it keeps to it. Very customizable, all my backups (tested monthly) have restored fine for the past few years. If you’re looking for something to run your homelab, I highly recommend it.
other_cat@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thank you! I’d heard of Proxmox but not looked into it yet.
smashing3606@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Pbs adds deduplication and builtin in ability to sync backups to another pbs. Easiest way I've found for offsite backups imo.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Then make sure you can actually restore the data.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I must be stupid, could you elaborate?
Just went thru a big (unrelated) homelab restore
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I just mean don’t rely on backups that you haven’t proven you can restore from. Practice doing a restore when you are happy with your solution to make sure it works.
The only thing worse than losing all your data because you did’t back it up is losing all your data because you didn’t make sure your backup was restorable.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thanks so much