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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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[–] tqgibtngo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] bmck@lemmy.bmck.au 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

[–] TheHolm@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their prices are ridicules if you add cost of outbound traffic.

[–] hjpoijnerflkjn@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But if not (for disaster recovery only) it is pretty cheap. Like 1$/TB/month.

[–] bmck@lemmy.bmck.au 1 points 1 year ago

I hope to never have to restore from there. It’s not something you’re to do frequently.

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 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.

[–] quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world 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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(you should test your backups)

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

[–] quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I have. I work in tech, so I know better :)

[–] jrest18n@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Veeam backup and replication at home and at work.

[–] cctl01@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Duplicati to Backblaze B2 for the important stuff. For as far as the media library goes, no backup just local raid setup...

[–] davad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Restic using resticprofile to configure and schedule backup runs.

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 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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