Comment on Backing up across machines with low free space?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks agoIt’s a VPS and I don’t want to increase the monthly cost - in fact I want to decrease it by disabling the backups the hoster offers. Machine B is my NAS at home.
Of course, incremental would be preferable, but I’m not sure how that would work in that constellation.
I wonder if I can compress to B directly. Maybe I could mount a volume from B into A via wireguard and nfs, now that I think about it.
redlemace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do you have unlimited data transfer with your vps? Transferring 40Gb three times each and every day is quite some traffic.
Why not host it at home then? I bought a used lenovo thinkcenter (m720q on top of my head) for 75€ It uses only 35 watt, it has 750 Gb storage and I only added some RAM.
I pay 1€ per month for a fixed public ip to avoid ddns. My NAS is at a family member (over vpn to home) for offsite backups.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
I do have a someserver, but it’s a fediverse instance with around 60 monthly active users, and the server provider is more reliable than my ISP at home, so any downtime has a bit more impact. There’s also another admin who needs access. Not saying never, but at the moment I’m just looking for a different backup solution, moving the whole thing has some more aspects to consider.
The data would only be copied once a day. I have to check the limits though, good point.
redlemace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could set up syncthing to a pc at home and pull backups from there
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
That should work! I’ll have to make sure it only syncs one direction but that’s doable of course