Paperless cloud backups https:// samsm.ch/paperless-cloud-backu ps/

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• lokalhorst@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use restic to backup my paperless documents to a Hetzner Storage Box. The setup was easy and I am independent of US cloud hosters.

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  • mondoman712@toot.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @lokalhorst As I mentioned in the post, this method can be used to back up to many different providers (incl. hetzner, see https://rclone.org/docs/). I assume w/ restic you're just backing up the folder where paperless stores the docs rather than the export. IMO the latter is nice because leaves you w/ something that's more useful w/o paperless.

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    • lokalhorst@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I actually use the document_exporter of paperless-ngx. I have a small bash script backup-paperless.sh that runs the paperless-ngx document_exporter and also makes a database dump using pg_dump. It sets up the restic backups logic with daily, weekly and monthly backups. I run that bash script using a systemd service paperless-backup.service. This service is run daily with the timer paperless-backup.timer, randomly at 3 am ±30 minutes. restic is smart, so it does only backup if there are changes. The incremental backups are great, in case the database corrupts without me noticing. I’ll share the scripts in case you are interested in how it works:

      backup-paperless.sh

      #!/bin/bash
      set -euo pipefail
      
      COMPOSE_DIR="/home/user/paperless-ngx/"
      DUMP_DIR="$COMPOSE_DIR/sqldump"
      EXPORT_DIR="/usr/src/paperless/export"
      
      export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="sftp:abc123@abc123.your-storagebox.de:/backup/restic"
      export RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE="/home/user/.config/restic/password"
      
      mkdir -p "$DUMP_DIR"
      
      cd "$COMPOSE_DIR"
      docker compose exec -T webserver document_exporter "$EXPORT_DIR" -p
      docker compose exec -T db pg_dump -U paperless paperless > "$DUMP_DIR/dump.sql"
      
      
      
      restic backup "$DUMP_DIR" "$COMPOSE_DIR/export"
      
      restic forget \
      	--keep-daily 7 \
      	--keep-weekly 4 \
      	--keep-monthly 6 \
      	--prune
      
      rm -rf "$COMPOSE_DIR/export"/*
      rm -rf "$DUMP_DIR"/*
      

      paperless-backup.service

      [Unit]
      Description=Paperless-ngx Restic Backup
      Wants=network-online.target
      After=network-online.target docker.service
      
      [Service]
      Type=oneshot
      User=user
      WorkingDirectory=/home/user/paperless-ngx
      ExecStart=/home/user/paperless-ngx/backup-paperless.sh
      

      paperless-backup.timer

      [Unit]
      Description=Run paperless backup every 24 hours
      
      [Timer]
      OnCalendar=*-*-* 03:00:00
      Persistent=true
      RandomizedDelaySec=30min
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=timers.target
      

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• darntootin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t trust Dropbox, ever. I backup to Proton, but use Cryptomator to encrypt everything first.

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  • mondoman712@toot.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @darntootin I don't see how Proton is all that more trustworthy, but encryption is a good idea, and my method works fine for both since rclone already supports proton (https://rclone.org/protondrive/) and encrypting your data pre-copy (https://rclone.org/crypt/)

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    • darntootin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This was enough for me to never use them: arstechnica.com/…/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending…

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you encrypt at home it doesn’t matter where you do offsite. See Cryptomator for an easy platform agnostic approach. Why trust the bastards?

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  • MangoPenguin@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Restic is a good backup tool with encryption. Cryptomator is awesome but it doesn’t do backups, just storage.

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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Completely correct.

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  • mondoman712@toot.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @MalReynolds Rclone can encrypt, but I also like to have another avenue to access my documents in case for some reason I can't accessy homelab.

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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cryptomator has an adroid app, haven’t used it in anger, but it’s there.

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• MangoPenguin@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How are you handling versioning and deleted files?

  It seems like Restic would be a better option? It only backs up changed files and handles versioning, encryption, deduplication, and some fault recovery allready.

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