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I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Backblaze on a B2 account. 0.005$ per gb. You pay for the storage you use. You pay for when you need to download your backup.

On my truenas server, it's easy as pie to setup and easy as 🥧 to restore a backup when needed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll add to this that restic works amazingly with Backblaze. Plus a dozen or so other backup options.

[–] Wxfisch 5 points 1 year ago

I also recommend B2, it’s an S3 compatible service so any backup software/scripts/plugins that work with S3 should work with Backblaze.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm stupid, but what is B2? A Backblaze product?

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

Yes it's their cloud storage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't realize they did anything other than that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think they had some form of cloud computing at some point but they now focus on B2 and some backup tools that utilize B2.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

B2 is awesome. I have Duplicati set up on OpenMediaVault to backup my OS nightly to B2 (as well as a local copy to the HDD).