Submitted 5 months ago by mosspiglet@discuss.online to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Looking for recommendations for backing up laptops to my Unraid NAS. I’m running Immich for photos, and want something for incremental backup of the laptops (Win 11 and Linux). What do you guys like?
Veeam has a free client backup app that you can point to a share.
I just use borg on a timer. I can set it on my various machines via a shell script or on my NixOS machine in the config. I have it backup stuff daily at the same time, have automatically remove old backups after a certain period of time, and I can easily mount it to whatever computer using an alias. I don’t think about it, just does it, easy peasy.
I use Resilio to duplicate locally to my Unraid, which I know is hated as it’s not the FOSS Syncthing, but in 5 years of use, it’s never gone wrong, and the client software is dead easy to use. That has a hidden .sync folder which archives deleted files for 30 days. You can change the timeframe or remove this feature in settings. I go into the sync folder and remove the deleted files manually if it becomes too bloated.
From my Unraid, I then backup to Hetzner using Duplicacy, which with the GUI is also very easy to use. From what I’ve read about the other backup solutions being a bit flaky, Duplicacy seems to have nothing but love.
So does syncthing for deleted files.
I think they’re forked form the same source, Bittorrent Sync, so function the same under the hood. I wasn’t suggesting Resilio did something Syncthing didn’t. I’ve just found Resilio easier to use for client devices. And that OP was concerned about losing files from syncing.
The only odd behaviour I’ve had with Resilio, is when hosted on Unraid, random files on the SMB share sometimes have database names on large folders with lots of files (RSH-78254 for example), but when synced to remote devices, the filenaming is then accurate. I’ve been meaning to spin up Syncthing to see if it does the same, but as Resilio has yet to lose me any files, I’m sticking with it.
Could be a Docker issue as well I guess.
Urbackup, works great on windows and Linux. For Linux servers I still use Borg how ever but desktop is good with it.
Duplicati is probably one of the easier options.
Agree, I use it myself. My only gripe is that it seems pretty slow, not sure if thats the deduplication part or what, haven’t bothered looking into it because i run the backup after im in bed so not a big deal.
If you are gonna run the backups during daytime might be a problem.
Then again though, could just be my setup (havent looking into it).
I use Restic and also use Backrest to have a UI to browse my repos. I would use Backrest for everything, but I’d rather have my backup config completely source controlled.
Restic is amazing. I use it to push to backblaze b2. I have a lot of redundant data (eg tar files of systems that are only slightly different) and it de-duplicates the data to an incredible degree.
Borg is already great enough. And once you find a flow, it really rocks!
Duplicacy
Also look at github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile and github.com/garethgeorge/backrest for tools built on top of restic cli
Wow, I’ve been a longtime user of restic and never knew about resticprofile, it seems super nice. Already at a glance through the docs, the ease of doing an inherited stdin-enabled sql backup group alone is super exciting.
Thank for pointing this one out!
duply
Borg seems fine to me.
fwiw, I used Kopia for around a year, but eventually the backup got corrupted with a BLOB not found error and there was no way to fix it.
similar to this issue, except that nothing would fix or improve the situation github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1087
and because it seemed to be an issue with the repo (not just with a snapshot), the remote copy was also borked.
I’ve since migrated to Rustic
Never heard of of Kopia. Will check it out.
I set up Syncthing using the docker image from the Unraid “store” and it works great.
I’m not in love with the clients (especially Windows) but it seems to work pretty well once your setup is stable.
Thanks for the recc. I’ve used syncthing for syncing my phone with my PC and it works great. Though sync is not quite what I want since any file deletions on the PC get propagated to the folder on the server. Though maybe there is a way to change this behavior in syncthing?
I would generally keep sync and backup separate, but if you are using a cow filesystem like zfs on your unraid machine, it could take reliable snapshots.
In the advanced options of syncthing (web GUI) you can turn off deletions for every sync folder respectively.
You can enable file versioning so deleted files will be kept for a set amount of time.
mosspiglet@discuss.online 5 months ago
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I’ll definitely look into these.