Data Backup Solutions

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Always used Seafile to backup all of my electronics. Then borgmatic and borgbase as my only remote backup for my entire server. Local backup on another drive every now and then.

Have been having trouble fixing up the latest version of Seafile in docker and I've gotten too busy to deal with it over and over.

And now I only have to deal with my own backup data. So Seafile isn't so useful anymore.

Looking for information on other home server data backup flows.

At most 500Gb of usage is what I expect to idle around. Need integrity checks, best speeds and reputable service. The works, I know.

Looking for same annual pricing as borgbase (~80USD) or better of course.

Here are a couple I found:
- Filen
- Jottacloud
- some Hetzner storage or something

Definetly need a CLI tool with syncing. Or some method for client side encryption backups.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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walden@wetshav.ing ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I'm not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It's command line only. I think there's a tool to make it a GUI but I haven't tried it. They have a Docker image available but it's weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it's done. I love Docker but that didn't quite work for me.

I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.

Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.

When it's time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.

Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.

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- ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fun tip on restic for restoring or browsing snapshots. The restic mount command lets you mount your backups to your filesystem and that enables you to browse all your snapshots and all the code at different points in time all from your file manager. Then you can just drag and drop to restore files as needed.
  
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  - walden@wetshav.ing ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I've never had to restore a backup (yet), but to me this is the best feature of Restic.
    
    I used Duplicati for a while (I think it was Duplicati, not Duplicacy) and although the backups seemed to work, I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.
    
    Restic is a slight chore to get set up with the environmental variables, figuring out which directories to "--ignore", etc... but man once it's set up it's just great.
    
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- brewery@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I also use restic for backups. I actually switched from Borg because it kept getting stuck and failing but couldn’t work out why. Not had issues with restic (so far, touch wood!).
  
  I use resticprofile with yaml configurations though (github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile), which made it much easier for me to figure out.
  
  I use borgbase for offsite backups.
  
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- Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.
  
  Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.
  
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ZonenRanslite@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I simply use a shell script that rsync my files to the backup server. Runs daily as cronjob at 01:00 am.

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- confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I use rsync too. It’s older and from what I understand was designed at a time when data storage was much smaller so it may not be as fast as other backup options. It also doesn’t have encrypted backups like other backup options (I think).
  
  Rsync has been the most reliable option for me though. Every syncing option I’ve tried seems too complicated and breaks down every time I look away. Since my entire backup size is around 550gb and I’m not concerned with encrypted backups, I think rsync just works just fine.
  
  I even created my own tool that puts my rsync commands into easy to read/modify files so I can organize my most common transfers. I can easily backup my phone, HomeAssistant server, home server and computer to my two backup locations in a single alias or cronjob now.
  
  A bit of a pain to learning how to make proper backups that restore successfully every time, but once I figured it out, I’ve been very confident in my backup strategy.
  
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- DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Same same but different. My backup server pulls my files with rsync.
  
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slate@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I really like duplicacy. It’s just a single executable you add to your path, then configure it to back up to basically any remote you want. I don’t even bother to run it in a container since it doesn’t have dependencies. Encrypted, compressed, deduplicated, incremental backups. The algorithm is pretty slick too. It can back up multiple machines to the same repository, and it’ll dedupe across them without any locks required.

For storage, you can just go with whatever is cheapest/easiest. I use a gdrive I’m paying for regardless for effectively free storage. But if I didn’t have that, Hetzner seems very appealing. I think it’s $4/mo for 1TB? Very reasonable, and you wouldn’t need to worry about api calls or chunk size / file count like you would with S3/B2/StorJ.

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- AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  +1 for Duplicacy, very worth it IMO. Not only do I use it for my PC, I back up my server to my other server in another state with 8t. I also use it with Backblaze B2 (for very important files) which is slightly more than Hetzner ($6/TB). I haven’t run into any chunking issues and they don’t charge for API calls. Highly recommendated.
  
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  - slate@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    B2 does charge for API calls: www.backblaze.com/…/transaction-pricing
    
    Though, it’s not so bad and they give you 2.5k free calls of each paid tier per day.
    
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- lankydryness@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  +1 on duplicity. I run it directly on the host, outside of my docker containers. Grabs the data from the different volumes for my Nextcloud etc, puts it all into an AWS infrequent access bucket. Costs me ~3$USD/month. Pretty simple. Runs on cron
  
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use Veeam.
The Agent is free amd can do integrity checks
The B&R server can manage multiple systems has a steeper learning curve can be free (with a reduced featureset) or operated with a license.

I use Veeam at home and at work and I quite love it.
(And they recently started supporting Proxmox)

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thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you have already borg, why don’t use it?

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- TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Checking out alternatives to see if there might be a better solution compared to when I set up my server initially last year.
  
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  - thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I see, well if borg really ticks all checkbox es and you know how to use it I would explore any further.
    
    Sincerely, borgbackup is really a top solution with a lot of nice features
    
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spanac@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use Hetzner Storage Box for my backup needs - TrueNAS handles this for me on a regular interval and encrypts them before upload (yay rclone!). I needed a bit more storage than you, to the tune of 5TB, and for this much data they were the cheapest (12eur / 15usd per month iirc).

Consider slightly more storage if you need snapshots. For my storage box i enabled them, and now have a history of last 4 monthly backups.

If you use rclone, you can mount the remote backup as a fuse filesystem and browse your backup like it would be a local file - extra left what you need only. Any livecd / USB with rclone can help you rescue your data in case of disaster.

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tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For me borg is ideal. Once a month I run a backup.

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aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use Kopia to perform incremental encrypted backups (with some retention policy of up to two years) and store them on Backblaze B2, which is reasonably cheap.

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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I haven’t changed much in years, still run a truenas box (was freenas before) with 5 spinning rust drives and never lost any data yet (bang goes something now I’ve said it). Currently duplicati but some stuff is just backed up manually still. Each to their own like, and immich on truenas for backing up photos and videos

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