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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] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Duplicati, to a friend's home server who lives in another town.

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

I use OneDrive. Buy the Costco subscription and get like 15 months for around 110 CAD. GIVES 6 TB. I create some fake accountsink the sharing to my main account. I have an encrypted rxlone share for some things and others I GPG encryot the tar before sending it up. Been working fine for a couple years and I have multiple TB backed up.

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

I use nightly borg backup to a separate box and then that box uses rclone to back up the borg repo offsite. Before running the borg backup I export all databases and docker volumes so they get picked up.

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

Restic using resticprofile to configure and schedule backup runs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My truenas backs up to B2 Backblaze. Set it up years ago and haven't touched it since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(you should test your backups)

You may have, but this is a friendly reminder just in case.

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

Veeam backup and replication at home and at work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

AWS Glacier. I use the Synology plugin that does it automatically on a schedule.

https://aws.amazon.com/es/s3/storage-classes/glacier/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an "enterprise" feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven't done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn't lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven't used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn't great.

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