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I use duplicacy to backup to my local NAS and to Storj.io. In case of a fire I'm always able to restore my files. Storj.io is cheap, easy to access from any location and your files are stored and duplicated on multiple different locations.
I have used duplicity before but restoring from a new installation takes a while, as duplicity has to reanalyze the storage.
+1 for Duplicacy. Been using it solidly for nearly 6 years - with local storage, sftp, and cloud. Rclone for chonky media. Veeam Agent for local PC backups as a secondary method.
I have 2 servers that backup to each other. I also use B2 for photos and important stuff.
My home servers a windows box so I use Backblaze which has unlimited storage for a reasonable fixed price. Have around 11TB backed up. Pay the extra few dollars for the extended 12 month retention of deleted files, which has saved me a few times when I needed to restore a file I couldn’t find.
Locally I run stablebit DrivePool and content is mirrored and pooled using that, which covers me for drive failures.
Using ESXi as a hypervisor , so I rely on Veeam. I have copy jobs to take it from local to an external + a copy up to the cloud.
I've recently begun using duplicati to backup the data from my docker containers and VMware snapshots for the guest VM itself, just currently struggling to understand how to automate the snapshots yet so I do them manually
TrueNAS zfs snapshots, and then a weekly Cron rsync to a servarica VPS with unlimited expanding storage.
If you use a VPS as a backup target, you can also format it with ZFS and use replication. Sending snapshots is faster than using file-level backup tool, especially with a lot of small files.
Almost all the services I host run in docker container (or userland systemd services). What I back up are sqlite databases containing the config or plain data. Every day, my NAS rsyncs the db from my server onto its local storage, and I have Hyper Backup backup the backups into an encrypted S3 bucket. HB keeps the last n versions, and manages their lifecycle. It's all pretty handy!
I have an rsync script that pulls a backup every night from my truenas server to my Synology.
I've been thinking about setting up something with rsync.net so I have a cloud copy of my most important files.
ZFS array using striping and parity. Daily snapshots get backed up to another machine on the network. 2 external hard drives with mirrors of the backup rotate between my home and office weekly-ish.
I can lose 2 hard drives from the array at the same time without suffering data loss. Any accidentally deleted files can be restored from a snapshot if my house is hit by a meteor I lose maximum of 3-4 days of snapshots.
A simple script using duplicity to FTP data on my private website with infinite storage. I can't say if it's good or not. It's my first time doing it.
How do you have infinite storage? Gsuite?
I confirm that in the terms and condition they discourage the use as a private cloud backup and only to host stuff related to the website. Now.. until now I've had no complaints as I've been paying and kept the traffic at minimum. I guess I'll have to switch to some more cloud oriented version if I keep expanding. But it's worked for now !
I use Bacula to an external drive, it was a pain in the ass to configure but once it's running its super reliable and easily extended to other drives or folders
Proxmox backs up the VMs -> backups are uploaded to the cloud.
rsync + borg, but looking at bupstash
Zfs z2 pool . Not a perfect backup, but it covers disk failure (already lost one disk with no data loss), and accidental file deletion. I'm vulnerable to my house burning down, but overall I sleep well enough.
All my backups are in /home/Ryan/Documents. Please don't break my Minecraft server.
Veeam backup and recovery notnfor retail license covers up to 10 workloads. I then s3 offsite to backblaze
Running a Duplicacy container backing up to Google drive for some stuff and Backblaze for mostly all other data. Been using it for a couple years with no issues. The GUI and scheduling is really nice too.
Most of the files are actually nextcloud so I get one more copy of files (not backup) on PC by syncing with nextcloud app
Compressed pg_dump rsync’ed to off-site server.
Not what you mean but I use BDR shadow protect and Datto. Depending on customers budget.
For my webserver, mysqldump to a secured folder, then restic backup the whole /svr folder, then rsync the restic backup to another server. Also have a system that emails me if these things don't happen daily. The log files are uploaded to a url, the log file is checked for simple errors, and if no file is uploaded in time, email.
Of course, in my case, the url files are uploaded to - and the email server... are the same server I'm backing up... but at least if that becomes a problem, I probably only need the backups I've already made to my second server.
My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.