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I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hate to ask the scary question, but have you tried to restore your backups before? I used Duplicati and discovered that none of my backups were usable and ended up switching to Duplicacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

+1 for Duplicacy. It just works, truly does. Duplicati on the other hand seems to work, but has a tendency to fail on restore, just as you described.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An important question though.

I have, when I first set it up, and again once when I needed to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It works just fine for me, but I've heared scary storries so now Im using:

  1. Kopia to backblaze b2 (all data)
  2. Kopia to local disk (all data)
  3. Duplicati to google drive (only 1 folder)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would one realistically go about testing their backup? Do you need a bunch of empty drives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need to do full restores, spot check random files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I switched to restic.