Comment on Offsite Backups with Slow-ish Upload?
tal@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I don’t do offsite backup, but if your backup system supports it, you could physically take your backup drive to some location with a lot of bandwidth to toss the initial full backup up there.
nix98@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, that is what I am thinking. I am using duplicity for backups, so I can probably back up to a hard-drive, take that to work, sync it to my backup provider, then just do incremental backups from then on.
However, I think duplicity really wants to do full backups every X months, so I’m not sure the best way to handle that.
tal@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I don’t know whether it’s important to do a full backup for performance, but you’d need to do that if you wanted to remove old backups. It looks like the term for a full backup that reuses already pushed-over data is a “synthetic full” backup, and duplicity can’t do those.
I have never used it, but Borg Backup does appear to support this, if you wanted an alternate that can do this.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Another alternative is to setup a backup server at a willing friend/family members house so that you can physically take the drive and just upload and new changes later.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Or, pick up 2 backup drives, keep one at a friend/relative’s house, then just swap them every time you visit.
I keep a drive at my parent’s house in case of emergencies. Backup frequency is essentially every few months, but I also have the local portable drive with real-time sync I can snag on my way out.