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I do something similar with rclone. Most server software have some way of creating backups. Have that software create a backup and use rclone to move the file over to some cloud storage. Rclone also has the option to delete older stuff (rclone delete --min-age 7d). Do all that with a shell script and add it to the crontab.

You should be able to achieve this with Kopia

Borg Backup works great for that, exactly it's use case. It's a command line thing, but you can use Vorta as a UI if you want that. If you have a NAS, it can back up directly to that.

I have a second cronjob in my setup that syncs the encrypted archive to B2 nightly. Works great

What you want is a bash script and a cron job that calls it. Most of what you need is likely already installed for you.

"crontab -e" will pull up your crontab editor. Check out "man crontab" first to get an idea of the syntax...it looks complicated at first but it's actually really easy once you get the hang of it.

Your script will call tar to create your backup archive. You'll need the path to the folder where your files to backup are and then something like: tar -C PATH_TO_FILES -czf PATH_AND_NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz .

That last dot tells it to tar up everything in the current folder. You can also use backticks to call programs in line....like date (man date). So if your server software lives in /opt/server and your config files you want to backup are in /opt/server/conf and you want to store the backups in /home/backups you could do something like:

tar -C /opt/server/conf -czf /home/backups/server_bkup.`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz .

Which would call tar, tell it to change directory (-C) to /opt/server/conf and then create (-c) +gzip (-z) into file (-f) /home/backups/blah.tgz everything in the new current directory (.)

I don't know if that's what you're looking for but that would be the easiest way to do it...sorry for potato formatting but I'm on mobile

Duplicati does this and it's one of the best backup solutions imo

I would say since you want simple .zip archives, this could be something to script yourself since it would be fairly easy.

Basically:

• Zip the server into a dated zip file
• Check for old zip files and delete
• Upload zip files using rclone to remote storage (gdrive, etc)
• Optionally send a notification to discord, telegram, healthchecks.io, or something like that

The downside of zipping backups like this is obviously storage space, every backup takes up the full amount of space of the server, since there's no deduplication or incremental versioning happening.

Sounds like a job for logrotate. It does more than just log files, kinda average name I guess. Checkout this server fault q&a for more details. https://serverfault.com/questions/196843/logrotate-rotating-non-log-files

You can look at backuppc, it has served us well for years now. Offsite, manages incremental and full back ups, file deduplication, etc.
So on your Minecraft server do a daily backup and add the day off the week to it (whatever.7.gz), this way you always have 7 backups on the server and it auto rotates. Add that for folder to backuppc and the backup server will automatically decrease the amount of backups if they get older.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html

@[email protected] I suspect you can force restic not to encrypt. The other additional advantage of restic and similars is that you can specify s3, sftp and other targets.