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Recommendation for backing up a couple Mac and a couple Linux laptops (self.homelab)

submitted 1 year ago by markstos to c/[email protected]

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I would like the end result to include remote and encrypted backups.

I’m considering maybe a Synology NAS with an APFS partition for Time Machine and a BTRFS partition for Linux backups.

The Linux laptops might backup to the NAS with Restic.

The Synology NAS might then backup to BackBlaze or another cloud using Synology’s Hyper Backup or also Restic.

Have I missed a better plan?

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[–] smolyeet 2 points 1 year ago

For Macs: I use Time Machine backups on unraid (nothing fancy but it has built in settings to support it effortlessly). There’s also https://hub.docker.com/r/mbentley/timemachine that I tried out a year ago.

I haven’t tried over vpn but as long as you can mount the share , it should be fine.