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What backup service do you use? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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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] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Restic or Kopia, both to Backblaze.

[–] loganb 3 points 11 months ago

I second restic. Have been using it for a year now and have been generally very happy. Actually had to use it in a couple occasions to restore directory content and even recover a complete workstation drive. I have had relatively easy success in both scenarios.

[–] tiwenty 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've always found them pretty similar. How'd you chose one or another?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know Restic before Kopia and made a set of systemd units to run Restic backups on my home server and office workstation (both online 24/7).

Kopia seems much nicer for a regular user, so I use it on my and family laptops. I used to use Duplicati there, but that project seems dead.

[–] tiwenty 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Restic and then rclone to backblaze? Or is there a way to restic directly to backblaze?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I do prefer having a local copy of my backups (and therefore i use rclone), but afaik restic does support b2 directly...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

+1 for backblaze. I use docker for everything and mounted volumes directly in the folder alongside a docker compose file. So I just tar my services directory with everything in it, and pipe it to rclone which connects to backblaze and has a "cat" feature so you can pipe data directly to the destination.