How do you backup your data?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨onlinepersona@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with rclone, and thus being transparent to most anything I host.

How do y’all backup your data?

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capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
restic to Wasabi.

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BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I miss back in the day. Used to be able to store all my stuff on CD-R’s, hell before that it was floppy’s. File sizes have grown exponentially, programs/apps all have huge sizes. Pictures and videos is my biggest issue, but I’d also like to backup games that I’ve downloaded so I don’t have to download again. I can backup old games no problem, but modern games? Many are 100+ GB now, and in time they all will be and 200GB will be the standard, then a terabyte and more.

Anyway, until I can afford and find a 20 tb sad I’m just using DVDs for everything but games and large programs. Quick to write, solid, tangeable etc. If I could afford a bunch of flash drives I’d probably do that instead.

If you can afford it and it’s important data I’d ofc recommend backing up to a large SSD, THEN to a cloud (or more) as a failsafe… then also using flash drives/DVD’s etc. For an additional failsafe for the super important stuff.

I mean, if it’s important backup all you can.

I’ve got priceless memories in my Google photos library but ofc Google removed being able to view them on my native photos app and download easily… so instead I either have to backup and save ALL of it in Google drive or download specific albums… idk so I wouldn’t personally recommend google as a true backup as you never know, personally I’d just use DVDs and flash drives for that stuff

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gridleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
ZFS

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- giacomo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  lol I mean it’s not raid per se
  
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Maximilious@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I backup my ESXi VMs and NAS file shares to local server storage using an encrypted Veeam job and have a copy job to a local NAS with iSCSI storage presented.

From there I have another host VM accessing that same iSCSI share uploading the encrypted backup to Backblaze. Unlimited "local" storage for $70\y? Yes please! (iSCSI appears local to Backblaze. They know and have already started they don't care.)

I'm backing up about 4TB to them currently using this method.

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- jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Mine is kind of similar. Hyper-V backed up with Veeam to a separate logical disk (same RAID array, different HDD’s). Veeam backups are replicated to iDrive with rsync.
  
  I need to readjust my replication schedule to prioritize the critical backups because my upload speed isn’t fast enough to do a full replication that often.
  
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DeathByDenim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have two machines that back up to a local server using Borg. That whole server in turn backs up to Jottacloud using restic with encryption enabled.

By the way, I wouldn’t use rclone for backups. Use restic or something similar that does incremental backups. Because if you do rclone and then later discover that some files were corrupted locally, then your files are gone. With incremental backups you would still be able to retrieve them.

Oh, or do you mean backing up the stuff that is on the cloud?

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TheLongPrice@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Right now just a spare hard drive on a pi that I rsync too, but I’m looking for better options as well.

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emhl@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Local versioning with btrfs rsync copy to other machine in home network rsync to NAS at my parents home

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kowcop@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cheap second NAS that I power up every now and again, then I run a dsynchronize profile which replicates the important stuff (video), and all the stuff I could never replace I put on a usb and keep it elsewhere

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lorentz@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The main storage is a Nas that is mounted in read only most of the time and has two drives in raid mirror. Plus rclone to push a remote and client side encrypted backup to backblaze.

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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Illuminated Binary Manuscripts.

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ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For a long time I did 1 hot copy (e.g. on my laptop), 1 LAN/homelab copy (e.g. Syncthing on a VM), and 1 cloud copy … less a backup scheme than a redundancy scheme, albeit with file versioning turned on on the homelab copy so I could be protected from oopsies.

I’m finally teaching myself duplicity in order to set up a backup system for a webdev business I’m working on … it ain’t bad.

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joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Usb drive

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ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
zfs send

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- onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is that a new crypto?
  
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turing_spider574@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a compressed copy of the config files on my server on a separate drive, and every night restic makes a snapshot and stores it in a separate drive attached to a raspberry pi 3.

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nomecks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I do an s3 sync every five minutes of my important files to a versioned bucket in AWS, with S3-IA and glacier instant retrieval policies, depending on directory. This also doubles as my Dropbox replacement, and I use S3 explorer to view/sync from my phone.

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clavismil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I perform a backup once a week from my main desktop to a HDD, then once a month I copy important data/files from all nodes (proxmox, rpi’s and main desktop) to 2 “cold” unplugged HDD that’s the only time I connect them. I do all of that using rsync with backup.sh and coldbackup.sh

I use syncthing for notes across mobile/desktop/notebook, for that and other important files the backup goes to Google Drive or MEGA (besides the offline backup).

I want to try S3 Glacier since is cheaper for cloud backup… has anyone tried?

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  I want to try S3 Glacier since is cheaper for cloud backup… has anyone tried
  
  tl;dr it’s too expensive for what it is (cold storage), retrieval fees are painful, and you can often find hot storage for a similar price or cheaper.
  
  The fees to restore data make it cost prohibive to have disaster recovery runs (where you pretend that a disaster has happened and you have to restore from backup) and we all know that if you don’t test your backups, you don’t actually have backups.
  
  Restores are also slow - it takes several hours from when you request a download until you’re actually able to download it, unless you pay more for an expedited restore or instant retrieval storage. This is because the data is physically stored on tapes in cold storage, and AWS staff have to physically locate the right tapes and load them.
  
  Glacier also isn’t even that cheap? It looks like it’s around $4/TB/month, whereas $5/TB/month is a very common price for hot storage and plenty of providers have plans around that price point. I wouldn’t pay more than that. If you need to store a lot of data, a storage VPS, Hetzner storage box, Hetzner auction server, etc would be cheaper. You can easily get hot storage for less than $3/TB/month if you look around :)
  
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Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use a combination of technologies.

I keep most of my documents in sync between all my computers with SyncThing. It’s not a true backup solution, but it protects me from a drive failing in my desktop or someone stealing my laptop.

My entire drive gets backed up locally to a external hard drive using Borg. That provides me with the ability to go back in time and backs up all of my large files such as family photos and home videos.

Important documents get cloud backup with Restic to BackBlaze B2. Unfortunately, I don’t want to pay for the storage capacity to save all of my photos and videos, so those are a little less protected than they should be, but B2 gives me the peace of mind that my documents will survive a regional disaster like flooding or fire.

I use both Borg and Restic because I started with Borg many years ago and didn’t want to lose all of my backup history, but can’t use it with B2. I used to use one of the unlimited cloud single-computer solutions like Mozy or Carbonite but have multiple computers and their software was buggy, then they increased the price significantly. When I switched to B2, I found Restic worked well with it. I think they’re both solid solutions, but the way Restic works and the commands make more sense to me.

I have a lot of photos that I take. Amazon Photos gives me unlimited storage to back them all up, but it’s terrible. When Amazon Drive existed, I could grab a folder and drop it in the Photos area of Drive. My folder structure was maintained and it was easy to see what I’d already backed up or what else needed to be sent. Then Drive was discontinued and the only way to manage my photos is through the terrible web interface. There is no folder structure, putting photos in albums is unwieldy, and I have no confidence in the systems ability to give me back my photos if I needed to recover from data loss. Uploading a bunch of photos through the web page is slow and fails more often than not, leaving me to painstakingly figure out what went and what failed or just upload the whole thing again, creating duplicates. Most of the time, I can’t even find a photo or album I’m searching for. I hate that it exists and would fill a specific need if it wouldn’t have such a terrible interface.

I wish I’d have a friend who would share a few TB of storage with me but I’m pretty happy with my system, even though it has some gaps.

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- ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Syncthing’s file versioning has got me out of many a jam
  
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  - Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh yeah, good point! I have file versioning turned on, too, so if I do need to roll back a file, SyncThing probably has a good copy.
    
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ZAX2717@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Backblaze. Easy and cheap. It’s fire and forget for the most part.

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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I still need to get it set up, but I'll have 3: One on my NAS, one on a local USB drive, and one offline backup. I'll use rsync for the job.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- Maximilious@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I'm sure you know this, but snapshots are not backups!
  
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leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
rsync over ssh (my server is in the next room) which puts the backup on an internal drive. I also have an inotify watch to zap a copy from there to an external USB drive.

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0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nightly backups to an on-prem NAS. Then an rsync to a second off-site NAS at my folks house.

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Alk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have my data backed up locally on an HDD, though I’m planning on building a server machine to hold more data (not just for backups). Important data I have backed up in Google drive and Proton drive, both encrypted before upload. It isn’t that big, I don’t back up media or anything in the cloud. Oh and I have some stuff in mega, but I stopped adding to that years ago. I should probably delete that account, thanks for the reminder!

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